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GRAD NO.1: The Only Wine Cooler for Nordic Summers
It’s summer, you’re hosting a garden party and you want everything to be just right, including the drinks. We can’t all be sommeliers, but there’s no harm in wanting your wine to be perfect. With the help of Danish GRAD’s new rechargeable, temperature-controlled wine cooler, it can be.
Temperature is crucial to fully enjoy a wine’s aromas and flavours, but an ice bucket doesn’t allow for temperature customisation. A Riesling should be served at 6° – 8°, but a merlot at 14° – 16 – this is where GRAD NO.1 steps in. With user-experience at the heart, the company’s engineers set out to create a product that was simple to use, beautifully designed and technologically advanced.
Here’s how to achieve wine nirvana: Place your bottle in the cooler, set the cooler to the preferred temperature for the type of wine, and enjoy! The cooler lasts 2 to 5 hours, depending on the temperature chosen, and can be wirelessly charged via a provided charging pad.
The design is sleek, intuitive and timeless, born out of the founder Max’s want to reduce ice waste and the amount of time spent keeping wine cold in fridges, only to take them out and serve them at the wrong temperature. The design and function have taken 5 years to perfect, but has resulted in a silent machine with a long battery life, that wouldn’t look out of place in your home or a restaurant.
“But we couldn’t get it out of our heads that at home or in restaurants, we install wine refrigerators to store wine at the perfect temperature, and the minute the wine is taken out and served, the temperature is immediately wrong. So we designed the GRAD NO.1 to be the perfect transition from the wine refrigerator to serving.”
Another thing that makes GRAD NO.1 perfect is that the cooler is a fully circular product. The engineers have created the perfect processes for zero waste design, collection and recycling – the CO2 footprint has been minimised, and the company are taking fully responsibility for collecting and recycling the coolers once you want an upgrade.
Available on Indiegogo, GRAD‘s first coolers will be shipped in March 2022 and deals start at 199 EUR for a cooler, with the early bird offers having already sold out, so get yours fast!
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