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Thursday, December 8, 2016

Coravin---Our Handy New Wine Gadget

One day last week, my husband showed me a video highlighting a new wine tool called a Coravin. We watched a video with Robert Parker and Greg Lambrecht, the owner and inventor of Coravin. We found out that the Coravin is a unique wine access system that enables you to pour wine from a bottle without pulling the cork. As the video went on, it was clear that Robert Parker was effusive in the praises of this new system and the more we watched, the more we thought that we might be able to use the Coravin to taste our bottled wine in micro-doses without opening the bottle and exposing it to air. Nuff said! No more than a day later, my husband decided to order the Coravin and we received it no more than 5 days after we ordered it. We tried it last night on one our our Chardonnay and one of our Auxerrois bottles.
We first tested the system on another wine bottle, just to make sure that we knew how to use it. It is very simple. The Coravin comes with an aluminum cannister filled with Argon that fits into the "handle" part of the Coravin. The Coravin has a hollow needle that pierces the cork and the lever delivers the wine, all without opening the bottle!

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