If you do a lot of entertaining and frequently serve wine, you will definitely want to consider purchasing a single bottle wine cooler.

One of the uses for these coolers is when you have forgotten to chill the wine you wanted to serve or unexpected guests show up, you can chill a bottle to the proper temperature quickly with these coolers; with some models this can be done in less than five minutes. These coolers are very handy in such cases, since if you put a bottle of wine in the freezer to chill you may forget it and it will become too cold.

With an electric single bottle wine cooler that uses thermoelectric cooling, you simply place the bottle of wine in the unit and the wine is chilled to its proper temperature in about four minutes. These wine chillers are also available in models which do not use electricity; the unit itself must be chilled in advance for at least thirty minutes before utilizing it.

A single bottle wine cooler is rather inexpensive and these are perfect to have on hand when you need to chill a bottle of wine at the last minute and these units are readily available online through merchants such as Amazon.com.