This Is the Best Way to Chill Wine in a Hurry

Let's be real: Refrigerator real estate doesn't always allow room to keep bottles of wine chilled and at the ready.

While you could always plop a couple of cubes of ice into room temperature wine to chill it, that comes with the unfortunate side effect of watery wine — yuck. Luckily, there's a clever wine chilling hack that doesn't compromise your wine's integrity. The trick? Treat your glass of wine as a cocktail.

A cocktail shaker is worth its weight in beverage gold. How else can you get perfect margaritas, martinis, and sidecars? But there's no reason not to think outside the shaker. Here's how to solve the problem of room temperature wine: shake your wine with ice cubes for five seconds, and then pour the chilled — but not watery — wine into a glass. And voila! Happy hour in an instant.