Liver, Schmiver!

A friend of mine likes to buy wine-based gadgetry like aerators and decanters and give them out as gifts to like-minded folks who have avoided an intervention partly through luck and partly through maintaining a network of friends who simply don't give a damn about each other's health.

God bless him.

The Ice Tube decanter by True Fabrications is a tapered, lead-free glass bottle inside of which nestles a large test tube that you can fill with ice and submerge in your wine to chill it without watering it down.

As "luck" would have it we had a bottle of Louis M. Martini Cabernet Sauvignon 2008 just sitting around all canted and uncooled and junk.

"Why chill a red? Aren't you supposed to drink reds at or near room temperature," you ask. Because I have a new decanter/chiller, wine snob.

The decanter works as advertised and is neat to look at. It appears sturdy and well-made but only time will tell how well it does in the dishwasher. According to the box it holds 33 fluid ounces... or about 1 1/3 standard bottles of wine... or about 2/3 of a 1.5 liter bottle... Any other conversions are left as an exercise for the student.

Well, cheers, fellow earthquake survivors/swamp fire smoke breathers/hurricane flee-ers! Time to pour myself a glass and watch another episode of "REMAIN INDOORS" before the radioactive zombies attack or the meteor hits.  Possibly both.