Some wine gadgets are just that, but there are others which will lend a helping hand when you are wrong footed in the course of throwing a drinking function. Although I have not used it for long, I have this feeling that this might be helpful to those who are less than perfectly organized in their drinking habits and who might find themselves with a bottle which should have gone into the fridge say an hour ago to cool off.
This gadget which looks like a metal tube with a pouring spout at one end is not really a tube. One puts it into the freezing compartment to pre-cool it before use. Putting the object into a wine bottle will seal off the contents and inside it are holes which allow the wine to flow into the device, later to emerge from the middle of the "tube" properly cooled and ready for pouring. I tried it on a bottle of under-cooled Mosel Riesling and it worked well. However, I would not trust it to cool an entire bottle of white wine from scratch, if I had not started to cool it at least a fair bit. This is also useful if you had run out of ice bucket space in the middle of dinner. Leaving a white out of the bucket but with one of these in the bottle can let you carry on enjoying it whilst the next bottle can be cooled in the ice bucket to ready it for consumption.
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