The Cooper Cooler Rapid Beverage & Wine Chiller is a very handy way to quickly chill a bottle of wine or can of your favorite beverage. It uses ice and water to cool the bottle or can rapidly, by rotating it and spraying ice water on it. (This type of “instant wine chiller” appeared in wine and liquor stores many years ago, and was a very clever idea. Now, they're available for home use – and you don't need a huge basin of ice water.)
The Cooper Cooler Wine Chiller can chill a wine bottle in 6 minutes, or a can in 1 minute – approximately 40 times faster than sticking it in the freezer, and you don't have to worry about your carbonated drinks turning to ice.
This wine bottle and can chiller can also be used as a bottle warmer – for baby bottles or anything else, by just using hot water instead of cold water and ice.
It offers an automatic touchpad that features preset times, an extra-chill setting, and an add-ice indicator light.
The Cooper Cooler Wine Chiller is very popular with purchasers, scoring a solid 4.3 stars, from close to 400 reviewers, at the time of this writing.
Some buyers didn't like that it needs to use ice, and dealing with the water, but that's the nature of a simple machine like this. Other electric wine chillers take much longer to chill a bottle or can, and most buyers found that inconvenience worthwhile to get their beverages cooled so much faster. Some complained that the chiller stopped working prematurely, but there weren't many of those, and it seems there are those kinds of complaints with virtually any product you can find on Amazon or anywhere else.
Most reviewers were quite happy that it cooled their wine and kept it cold, as advertised. Generally, reviewers said that this wine chiller worked fast (chilling a bottle of white wine in 6 minutes), and did exactly what they had hoped it would do. Most were thrilled with their purchase.
Our Rating:
Based on: 392 reviews/ratings
Approximate price: $100 (around $100 online)
Capacity: 1 bottle
Features:
- Beverages rotate while being sprayed with ice water
- Also heats baby bottles
- Automatic touchpad features preset times, extra-chill setting, and add-ice indicator light
- Removable lid for long wine bottles; no-spin option; auto-off when done
- Measures approximately 16 by 10-1/2 by 8 inches; 1-year warranty; does not include adapter
Pros:
- Quickly chills a single wine bottle or beverage can
- Attractive design – nice enough to leave in the serving area
- Maintains wine temperature while serving
Cons:
- requires ice to work
- a bit noisy
- some reviewers complained that it leaked water, typically when cooling a wider, flared white wine bottle, such as a champagne bottle. (One such user noted that it does work fine with domestic white wine bottles.)
Sampling of owner comments about the Cooper Chiller :
- I love this thing! It gets anything super cold very quickly, and shuts off automatically so you don’t have to worry about timing it. Love it!
- Works great, using for a wine bar in a restaurant.
- Purchased for my friends birthday and it has now become a staple for any party or BBQ!
- Hands down best money I have ever spent.
- Awesome machine. I can chill my beer that is stored in a hot car to ice cold in just a few minutes!
- This thing is a hit every time I break it out. Adults can't believe how well it works.
- Some Chardonnay bottles are too wide and will not work with this unit. Bottles that do fit this works great.
- This gets your drinks cold fast. Not just cool, but actually cold. I figured I'd use it for a week and forget about it, but it's been quite a while and I'm still using it.
- I love this thing. I bought this for my wife as a gift and I must say I think I use it more then she does.
- I love giving these as wedding presents for those who have everything.
Our summary:
Most folks raved about the Cooper Cooler Rapid Beverage & Wine Chiller, a nice single bottle electric wine chiller (and warmer). Owners loved the fact that they could just set the type of wine, and forget about making sure it was at the right temperature for serving. Apparently, this electric wine chiller is a very popular gift choice, as quite a number of reviewers said they'd given it as a gift, and it was so wildly popular that they either bought another as a gift, or bought one for themselves.
Although we did see a few reviews that mentioned it was noisy, complaints of noisiness of the Cooper Cooler wine chiller were not nearly as common as we've heard on some other electric wine chillers, like the Waring Pro Single/Double Bottle Wine Chillers. And, those who did mention the noise generally felt that it was a little annoying, but they still enjoyed the convenience of this chiller.
With most of the single bottle wine chillers we've researched, there were quite a few complaints about it taking literally hours for white wines to reach their target temperature. Several owners found this unacceptable, and a handful either returned or planned to return their wine chillers. However, this has not been the case with Cooper Cooler Single Bottle Wine Chiller, which cools very nicely on its own. Virtually all of the iceless wine chillers had trouble cooling white wines rapidly.
Many reviewers found this little wine chiller much more useful than they had expected – and several reported buying it as a gift, and then buying another for themselves.
All in all, the majority of Cooper Cooler owners loved their coolers, and were very glad they had made this purchase.
Bottom line recommendation:
The Cooper Cooler Rapid Beverage & Wine Chiller is RECOMMENDED.
Check out our other recommendations for single bottle electric wine chillers, and our wine cooler buyer's guide.