For The Love Of Port

This is really something and I wanted as many people to see this as possible. I have a feeling this is going to get really popular, really fast. I have consumed wine with Elin and trust her palate and objectivity:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-08-1 ... attle.html

Have you tried this and dose it work?

I would love to try one of these on old VP to see if it works as well as described for old wine. But I'm not sure that I'm willing to spend $360 for the device + 3 tubes of Argon in order to experiment. Then there's also the problem of sediment in old VP... at minimum that would get stirred up by upending the bottle, but might it not also plug the needle?

I wonder if a) any other gas would also work, such as Nitrogen, and b) anyone else makes cartridges that fit the Coravin?

If the answer to b) is no, then that's an awfully expensive razer.

Very interesting product, but if you are able to withdraw the wine without removing the cork, it's only a matter of time before a counterfeiter figures out how to put a different wine back in. Picture a perfect and age appropriate bottle, label and cork, with only a small puncture in the foil capsule to tip someone off. Or perhaps a new capsule if the hole is too noticable.

You can always call Dexter.

My wife's being pregnant at the moment, I think this is brilliant. Not sure if my local grocery store carries Argon, but nonetheless it may very well be worth the price of admission (and more! ) if it means you can stretch a bottle's lifespan as much as they say you can. Think of the value of wine that you might drink mostly (or even just somewhat) because "well, it's open anyway... ." Now you can save that last glass or two for another night without opening another bottle. Three hundred dollars might be worth just a few bottles given the kind of bottle one might be using for this... Or it might be worth just one half bottle in someone's cellar !

Unfortunately I also have to agree with Steve that in the wrong hands (Chaos) this could be used for very sinister purposes indeed.

Every one they sell will have to have some kind of unique imprinting marker like a fingerprint so any signs of tampering can be linked back to the registered owner of the device! (like the markings on a bullet after it's been fired... OK maybe I watch to much TV.)

Roy, I hope you are invited to a demonstration or taste test sometime soon! (or are you just going to buy one and then set up your own tasting?)

I do wonder how much gas is needed to fill up a half bottle....

Mark,

Although I was sent notice of this early on, I have no thoughts of purchasing one, don't know the inventor and have no interest in the product beyond mere fascination with a new device that sounds intriguing.

Would like to try on a VP for POC. Would be willing to spare a couple of identical older bottles to experiment

Mark L wrote:I do wonder how much gas is needed to fill up a half bottle....

The website claims that each canister of gas is enough for ~15 glasses of wine. Depending on the generosity of your pours, that's probably about 3 bottles from each canister.

For home use this is pretty interesting, but it isn't all that novel for a commercial setting.

That looks just like where they keep their opened bottles at The Yeatman.