Personally, when I need to chill wine in a hurry (it happens more often than I care to mention), I haven’t found a way faster, cheaper and easier than plunging the bottle into a 50/50 mix of ice and cold water with a generous handful of salt.  15 minutes, tops!

Should you have an extra hundred bucks burning a hole in your pocket however, and you’ve been thinking “My bottle of wine doesn’t look nearly enough like RoboCop!”, The Wall Street Journal has some options for you…