1. Filter cork pieces out of wine using a coffee filter. 
Did your cork get a little crumbly? Perhaps you got a little overzealous with the wine opener. No worries! Simply, pour the wine through a coffee filter to prevent cork pieces from getting in your glass. 

2. Remove red wine stains with white wine. 
Immediately rinsing a red wine stain with white wine will prevent the red wine from settling in the fabric (or carpet). Find out more ways to remove red wine stains here. 

3. Amp up your pasta sauces with leftover wine.
If you find yourself with leftover wine and aren’t sure what to do with it, add it to your pasta sauce for extra depth and flavor. Find out more about using wine in sauces here. 

4. Chill a bottle of wine quickly. Add salt. 
Ice + Water + Salt = a faster cool down for your bottle of wine. The more of the bottle submerged the better. 

5. Use tube socks to cushion wine bottles during transport. 
Whether you’re headed home from the grocery store or to a dinner party, keep your bottles of wine from clanking and possibly breaking by wrapping a tube sock around them. Keep a pair (preferably a clean pair) with your reusable shopping bags for easy access. 

6. Dry your wine glasses on a toaster oven rack. 
Hand drying a wine glass without breaking it or leaving towel fuzzies everywhere is quite the challenge, place your freshly cleaned wine glasses on a toaster over or cooling rack to dry rather than directly on a towel. This allows the liquid to drain and evaporate. No residue! 

7. Keep your wine cold with frozen grapes.
If you’d like to keep your wine chilled on a hot day, add a few frozen grapes. They act as great ice cubes without watering down your vino. And there’s a nice little snack waiting at the bottom of your glass. 

8. Let your angel food cake cool using a wine bottle. 
If you’ve ever made an angel food cake, you know it can fall-in if not properly cooled. Support the pan on a wine bottle to let it cool evenly. Use an empty bottle so the heat from the pan doesn’t raise the temperature and possibly taint a full bottle of wine. 

9. Reuse a wine bottle to water thick, hard-to-get-to plants.
The long neck is super handy at getting water in the pot and not everywhere else. 

10. Wrap a bottle of (Missouri) wine in a dishtowel for an instant gift. 

We’ve all been there. You need a gift, but you forgot! You’ll look like a gift-giving genius, and it takes very little time and effort.