keep your wine cold on the cheap

in the summer time i like to enjoy a bottle of chilled pinot grigio as i'm reading a book on the balcony. i get tired of getting up to refill my glass but i want the wine to stay cold. here's how i do it on the cheap.

Step 1 The starting lineup

we've all used a coozie for soft drinks, beer cans and bottles, etc, but what about wine? why not?

take a look at the lineup of coozies i've collected from around the house. there are two types of materials used to make these four coozies. the two on the left are neoprene, the two on the right are some sort of thicker foam rubber i don't know the name of. who cares? we want neoprene!

why neoprene? simply put, it stretches more. wine bottles are bigger than your average twelve ounce can. the foam rubber coozies will not stretch enough to be useful with a larger bottle.

also, note the two different types of neoprene coozies. on the left is a pretty straight forward can coozie. the pacers coozie on the right is what's known as a jersey coozie. it is made for bottles. it slides over the top of a bottle, instead of having the bottle slide down into it like a basic can coozie. see the close up.

for this instructable you will need one of each of the neoprenes. check liquor stores, sporting events, etc, for places to buy coozies.

Comments

[meowzebub]

just curious: is "coozie" a regional variation of "cozy" as in tea coozie? or is it a portmanteau for booze cozy?

[callmeshane]

Fanks to err ahh Koliks Nonmus, I'm gunna be sober ummmmm week after next. Ummmm you wana drink is style.... blind rotten pee your pants on the banana lounge drunk..... Get a GOOD big foam box that doesn't leak..... or what the drunks of Australia call an Esky, and put all your booze in it. Fill it with ice. Try and put the lid on. If the bottles are too tall, then lay the yet to be drunk ones out flat and cut a hole in the top for the upright drinking bottle. "Drink from a glass??? - there is plenty of glass in the bottle....."

[countrybob]

What about a "Box" of wine.....

[pdub77]

buy a cooler, i guess.

[GorillazMiko]

Good idea, I like the covers with the jerseys, those are cool. :-)

[pdub77]

thanks, dude. did you see my revisions for the moonshine instructable?

[GorillazMiko]

Nope, but I'll go check it out right now. Oh yeah, nice guitar by the way, I saw it in the moonshine Instructable. :-)

[pdub77]

my roommate built it. it's his. i'll tell him you like it.