My parents bought me a Coravin for Christmas, an appliance that allows you to tap into a bottle of wine through the cork via a needle and pour a single glass, preserving the bottle up to weeks or even months. Initially, I thought I would shove this device in the back corners of my kitchen as yet another superfluous appliance. I absolutely LOVE this thing now though.
When I'm not FOAMing or BPLing, I like to have one nice glass of wine here and there throughout the week, but I constantly have to think through the following four days and consider if I have a hang with a friend coming up when we can finish the bottle. Or I'll often be that person coming to a dinner party with a half-drank bottle of nicer wine so that it doesn't go to waste!
This kind of unpredictable wine drinking routine causes me to keep cheaper bottles of wine on hand that I don't feel guilty about not finishing if I open up for one glass. The Coravin is already changing my purchasing behavior - I've been more inclined to invest in more expensive wines because I now have flexibility in consuming it. I imagine this will be the case for a huge portion of the wine drinking market and change sales trends for premium end wines. Genius invention.
Buy yours now!!! Or come hang out at my house and drink wine with me so that I don't even need to use it ;)
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