Woolamai Too

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Redefining Cool … Naturally ... The Coolamon® Wine Collection is a range of Ice-Free Coolers which adopt the temperature of your bottles, and hold that temperature for hours. Crafted from rugged, water-repellant Oilskin (waxed cotton) Canvas, and insulated with pure Australian wool, these amazingly functional and durable Ice-Free Wine Coolers will keep your Wine fresh and refreshing to the last glass.

Each sleeve of your Woolamai Too acts independently to adopt and hold the temperature of each bottle. You can keep 2 bottles chilled, 2 at cellar temp, or 1 of each. You can even keep a Hot Spiced wine at its heart-warming best.

Built to Work. Built to Last. Oilskin Canvas was originally developed roughly 700 years ago by North Sea fishermen as Sea Sail Cloth. Some of the roughest waters in the World. It is water-repellent, amazingly tough, with a life expectancy measured in decades. Aussie Wool is water-repellant, flame retardant, virtually indestructible, with a life expectancy measured in decades. You can wear your Coolamon® out, but you’ll have a great time along the way.

What is a Coolamon®? ... Coolamon is an Anglicized version of an Aboriginal Australian name for vessels used to gather and carry food and water. The First Australians began making Coolamons by carving a piece of bark from select trees; shaping and curing it over a fire; to create a bowl-shaped carriers.

Our 21st Century Coolamons® carry forward the Australian tradition of blending the best of Mother Nature with human ingenuity to allow you to Experience a Slice of the No Worries Life.

Sheer Simplicity ... Australian Wool is an Active insulator. Meaning that the fiber itself adopts the temperature of its immediate environment and actively works to retain that temperature. Water repellant, yet vapor absorbent, Aussie Wool absorbs the temperature from the vapor coming off your drink, creating a thermal lock. As your drink warms (or cools) the Wool releases the stored cold (or hot) back into the cooler to extend the enjoyable life of your beverage.

How good is Aussie Wool? You don’t see sheep shivering in the fields. This is why we say that your Coolamon Coolers are simply Mother Nature at her very best.

Sheer Performance ... Aussie Wool is extremely durable, making it particularly well suited for rugged, repeated use applications. Aussie Wool is more durable than synthetic and other natural fibers. When paired with ultra-tough Oilskin Canvas, your Woolamai Too Wine Cooler has a life expectancy measured in decades, not mere months or years. First sip to last, your Woolamai Too will keep your bottles at the desired temperature, and will sustain the fun for years to come.

Sheer Sustainability ... Australian Wool is organic, abundant, renewable, and sustainable. In addition to outperforming and outlasting man-made insulators, Wool is biodegradable and compostable, offering environmental benefits to the ecosystem. Man can simulate Nature, but we cannot replicate it. When it comes to finding the best insulator on the planet, there is nothing better than Mother Nature at her very best.

Sheer Genius ... The genesis of these great ice-free coolers can be traced back to the great Wool surplus of the 1990’s. Barbi & Leigh Hemming produced Wool blankets, Wool outerwear, and other Life Accessories on the Sunshine Coast of Australia. Concerned for their Rancher friends Barbi & Leigh began searching for new uses for Aussie Wool. In a stroke of genius, they asked themselves: “We use wool to keep people warm, can we use wool to keep things cold?”

The Couple set out in hopes of creating a soft-sided cooler which would keep ice frozen longer than traditional ice-box coolers. Little did they know, until the completion of the original Australian Cooler Bag that they had created a cooler which does not require ice.

• 1995: The Didgeridoonas brand of Wool-insulated coolers was launched in Australia.
• 1999: The Phillips Family of Cape Woolamai Mercantile® (USA) were given a Woolly Wine Cooler as a Christmas gift.
• 2005: David Phillips (age 12) began selling Didgeridoonas ice-free coolers off the Dining Room table in the Family home, in school, and in local shops.
• 2006: Southpaw Express (our business) was asked to display a collection of Didgeridoonas ice-free coolers to the EPCOT International Food & Wine Festival at Walt Disney World. Where they received a very enthusiastic reception.
• 2012: Southpaw Express began growing the business by selling these amazing Aussie products in Pop-Up Stores at Local and Regional Events.
• 2016: David graduated from college, and our pop-up shoppes graduated to a new name Cape Woolamai Mercantile Co.
• 2017: The Coolamon® Collection of premium+ ice-free coolers was launched In response to the many requests received from our American Friends for versions of these awesome Australian products tailored to fit the unique characteristics of the American Lifestyle.

Sheer Support Cape Woolamai Mercantile® is in the business of making Life more comfortable … guaranteed. All Didgeridoonas and Coolamon products are Guaranteed for Life against defect in material or manufacture. Visit the What to Know section of this site to get ideas on how to best use and care for your Didgeridoonas and Coolamon® products, and to learn about the Cape Woolamai Performance Guarantee.