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Vacu Vin Not stated by the maker review

A stainless steel champagne cooler with a removable freezer sleeve that chills and then holds the bottle, with no ice.

What it comes down to A stainless champagne cooler with a freezer sleeve inside it, so the bottle is chilled by a frozen insert rather than by ice and water. No temperature, no time, and nothing to plug in.

What the maker puts in writing

  • Stainless steel active cooler with a removable freezer sleeve
  • Pre-chilled insert cools the bottle and holds the temperature
  • For champagne, prosecco and cava
  • No ice, no dripping

The mechanism, cheaper, two rows down

Vacu Vin’s Rapid Ice cooler on this shelf is the same idea — frozen gel against the bottle — in a fold-flat jacket, and it publishes six hours in the freezer, five minutes to chill and hours of hold.

This puts the gel inside a stainless bucket and publishes none of those figures.

What you are buying

The look. A table with a stainless cooler on it reads differently from a table with a neoprene sleeve, and for a celebration that is a real reason.

Just be clear that the figures are on the cheaper product’s page, not this one.

Availability

Read on the day this page was built: $60 at the American Amazon shop.

Read from Keepa on the day this page was last revised; stock and price both move without notice.

Prices quoted in this text were read on 2026-10-04. The live price is at the top of the page.

What works, and what does not

Strengths

  • Chills and holds with no power and no ice, so it works on a table, a boat or a picnic rug
  • A stainless shell rather than a fabric sleeve, so the bottle is presentable at the table
  • The freezer sleeve comes out, which means it can be refrozen between courses while the shell stays on the table

Compromises

  • Publishes no chill time, no hold time and no temperature, where its own cheaper Rapid Ice sleeve on this shelf publishes five minutes and hours
  • Sparkling bottles only: the two Cooper Coolers and three holding coolers here take still wine as well
  • The sleeve has to be frozen in advance, so it is useless on an unplanned bottle

Its two closest on cost

Same shelf, nearest price — what the same spend buys instead.

Specifications

TypeActive cooler — a frozen sleeve inside a stainless shell
SleeveRemovable, pre-chilled in the freezer
BottlesChampagne, prosecco, cava and other sparkling bottles
IceNone — no dripping water
MaterialStainless steel
PowerNone
Chill timeNot stated by the maker
Hold timeNot stated by the maker
TemperatureNot stated by the maker
Amazon referenceB000GA0PCM
EAN0084256364734

What readers ask us

How long does it take?

The listing does not say. Vacu Vin’s own Rapid Ice sleeve on this shelf publishes five minutes to chill and hours of hold, at a third of the price, and works the same way — a frozen gel against the glass. This one puts that mechanism inside a stainless shell.

Does it fit still wine?

The listing names champagne, prosecco and cava. Sparkling bottles are a different shape from still ones, so treat the omission as a limit rather than an oversight.

Why pay more than the Rapid Ice sleeve?

For the stainless shell: the sleeve is a fabric jacket that goes on the bottle, and this is a cooler the bottle stands in. One looks like equipment, the other looks like a champagne bucket. Neither publishes a temperature.

The buyer this one serves, among bar and wine appliances

A champagne served at a table where a dripping ice bucket is not wanted and there is no socket

What this one costs among bar and wine appliances

Details checked on October 4, 2026.

Sources

Specifications: the manufacturer sheet for bar and wine appliances and the matching Amazon product page. Prices and availability: Keepa. Every figure on this page names its source.

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