APPETISERS
Coravin
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restaurants, bars, and wine drinkers at home,
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of 15 currently being able to correctly identify the difference.
to serve a glass without ever breaking the seal.
Jancis Robinson comments: “I cannot fault Coravin technically and I can easily see its applications for
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The Coravin wine extracting system operates by penetrating
restaurateurs who would like to offer particularly fine wines
a thin needle through the cork in order to extract the wine
by the glass,” whilst Anthony Rose of the Independent notes:
and propel it into a waiting glass. Subsequently, the cork
“It’s a Godsend for me and wine geeks everywhere.” The
automatically reseals itself, and the remaining wine in the
system is gathering pace in the food and beverage industry
bottle is perfectly preserved by the inert gas injected into it
and is available widely in the US whilst shipping to over 20
by the device.
countries worldwide.
Invented by Greg Lambrecht, a medical inventor whose
Significantly cheaper than an enomatic dispenser,
previous best-sellers included a spinal implant device, the
the current market standard, Lambrecht’s device is set
product could potentially provide a solution to the age-old
to revolutionise the wine industry with its innovative
problems of unnecessary alcohol waste and the swift dip
mechanism. With little interruption to, or altering of the
in quality of an opened aged wine, and will allow wine fans
wine’s development process, and coming with an easily
everywhere to sample without ever having to technically open
cleanable spout and needle, a nuclear engineer without a
the bottle. Developed over the space of 10 years and 4,000
single wine qualification may just have changed the face of
bottle tests, the Coravin system has produced consistently
the industry for years to come.