For a creative, convenient way to serve and chill wine at your next outdoor party, consider the wine gutter! This picnic table, designed by Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects, features a built-in galvanized steel gutter down the center of the table. Fill with ice and you have a bona fide wine cooler!
This would also work perfectly well for beer and any other beverage you'd like to keep cool on a warm day. If you're not the DIY kind, you can buy a gutter picnic table starting around $150.
Related: A Host of Great Rosé Wines To Enjoy this Summer
(Images: 1. Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects for Medlock Ames via Dwell Magazine; 2. Picnic Tables of Houston)
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I like this idea a lot! Especially since an alternate use would be to put some plants in there!
I love this as both a wine cooler or a garden centerpiece.
Didn't Remodelista do this exact same post last week ... or was it here?
I LOVE this idea....LOVE it!!!
BRILLIANT!
SO smart!
Great idea. But I think the original photo uses a galvanized poultry feeder, not a gutter.
Do you have to tip the table to empty the water out? Maybe drill some holes the length of the gutter would work?
Que buena idea, es perfecta para comer con amigos o con la familia y tener todo lo necesario a mano, sería posible ver como se hace la parte metálica donde va el hielo?
If you drilled a hole or two in the side or ends of the trough under the table you could use a rubber lever boat plug very effectively then your guests aren't getting wet knees as the ice melts on those hot summer days
Hi Everybody..and thank you for featuring one of my Beer Gutter picnic tables..to answer a few of your concerns about the design and drainage..I use an inch and a half rubber pop up drain you can get from Lowes hardware...It pops up when you push in the center and then seals back down when you push on the outside..The trough can be insulated so you have ice all day and prevent condensation from dripping on your legs..Again, Thank you for the post.. I appreciate all of you.. Bobby from Picnic Tables of Houston
The following is a video on youtube showing more details
http://youtu.be/l7PzG3hwuUI