Wine Service / Wine Buckets & Coolers
| Serve wine with flair at your bar, pub, tavern, or restaurant. Our elegant wine stands and wine ice buckets here are sure to greatly enhance your customer's wining and dining experience. |  |
Serve wine with flair at your bar, pub, tavern, or restaurant. Our elegant wine stands and wine ice buckets here are sure to greatly enhance your customer's wining and dining experience.
The Proper Way of Chilling Wine Using a Wine Bucket
One of the best ways to chill a bottle of wine is by using a wine bucket cooler. So how do you properly use a wine ice bucket to produce that perfectly chilled bottle of wine? A wine cooler or wine chiller helps chill or cool bottles of wine with the help of ice. You will want to fill the wine cooler bucket to about three-fourths full of ice with a bit of water mixed in. Place the wine bottle inside the cooler with ice, allowing the bottle to rest inside the wine bucket for approximately thirty minutes.
Wine or champagne can also be chilled inside a refrigerator as opposed to using a wine bucket or champagne bucket, but unlike using a wine cooler, the bottled wine will take substantially longer to chill. Cooling a bottle of wine inside a refrigerator usually takes approximately three hours to properly chill to the ideal temperature for serving.
Also, you might want to keep in mind that unlike wine and wine buckets, which go together perfectly well, wine and refrigerators do not work as well together. There is a big danger of overcooling or overchilling the wine in the fridge, which will most certainly affect its taste. Using an ice wine bucket in your bar, tavern, pub or restaurant is still the perfect way of serving your wine at its best.
The Perfect Wine Stands to Add Flair and Character to Your Establishment
Customers who frequent your restaurant or bar for a good meal or a nice bottle of your best wine or champagne don't just drop by for the eats and drinks. In fact, they are also looking for a great place to relax, unwind, and enjoy a unique place for its ambiance and atmosphere. With this in mind, its therefore important for you to serve your wine or champagne with flair and style.
Serving your wine or champagne in wine bottle chillers and champagne buckets is great for your bar, tavern, or restaurant as it adds character to your establishment, so why not go further and use the perfect champagne stands and wine bottle stands too? Stylish wine bucket stands and champagne stands will make the perfect addition to your bar and are even great space savers if you don't have a lot of space for large tables or large bars. You can effectively and conveniently set a wine bucket with stand next to a chair or stool inside your bar, and ready for customers who want to enjoy the perfect wining and dining experience.
Wine Buckets and Wine Stands Available Here at Rapids Wholesale
We at Rapids Wholesale offer our very own manufactured wine and champagne cooler buckets as well as wine stands and champagne stands. We also have a selection of wine buckets and stands from Vollrath, a trusted manufacturer of stainless-steel and aluminum parts and products for the food-service industry.
Our very own manufactured ice buckets for wine include a standard-style double-wall wine cooler, which is effectively a stainless-steel wine bucket that features a double-wall design that provides additional cooling power, with a mirror finish that adds elegance to any establishment's setting. This is can be ideally used as a perfect combination with our chrome-plated wine bucket stands for the perfectly served and ideally chilled bottle of wine or champagne. We also offer oval and round ice tubs perfect for tabletop serving and presentation of beer or wine.
Our Vollrath-manufactured wine ice buckets come in stainless steel, and we also have a beehive-style double-wall wine cooler that can be used as a champagne bucket that can keep wine or champagne cool for up to four hours, even without ice. In addition, the Vollrath wine bucket stand is the perfect compliment to these wine ice buckets.
The Proper Way to Chill Wine Using a Wine Bucket
Chilling wine with a wine bucket cooler is a quick and effective method to achieve the ideal serving temperature. To properly chill wine using an ice bucket:
- Fill the wine cooler about three-quarters full with ice and add some water to speed up the chilling process.
- Place the wine bottle inside the ice bucket, ensuring it's fully surrounded by the ice-water mixture.
- Allow the bottle to chill for approximately 30 minutes to reach optimal temperature.
While refrigerating wine is another option, it can take up to three hours to cool and risks overchilling, which can negatively impact the taste. Using a wine bucket is the preferred method in bars, taverns, and restaurants for maintaining the best wine flavor.
Adding Flair with Wine Stands
Wine service isn’t just about taste—it’s about creating a memorable experience for your customers. Wine and champagne bucket stands provide both practicality and style, adding to your establishment's ambiance. These stands are also space-savers, allowing wine buckets to be placed next to tables or chairs, making wine service more accessible and visually appealing.
Wine Buckets and Stands at Rapids Wholesale
Rapids Wholesale offers a variety of wine buckets, stands, and accessories, including:
- Stainless-Steel Double-Wall Wine Coolers: Our own manufactured wine coolers, designed to keep wine chilled longer with their double-wall insulation and elegant mirror finish.
- Chrome-Plated Wine Bucket Stands: Perfect for pairing with our coolers, providing a stylish and functional way to serve wine.
- White Marble Wine Cooler: This elegant marble cooler maintains wine's chill for extended periods, combining functionality with modern design.
These high-quality products ensure that your wine service is as sophisticated and efficient as possible.
