Make wine ice cubes. Photo courtesy
iSi Orka.

Then, when a sauce calls for a few tablespoons or a quarter-cup of wine, just pop and drop one or two into the saucepan.

This saves you from opening a bottle of wine for cooking, and provides far better flavor than a cheap bottle of “cooking wine.”

We keep a red wine tray and a white wine ice cube tray in color-coded, lidded iSi Orka ice cube trays (read our review). But you can make the cubes in a single tray and then store them in freezer bags.

You can also use the cubes in wine cocktails, or “winetails.”