The Next Big Thing For Wine
Coravin gives you the freedom to enjoy wine by the glass
‘TRANSFORMATIONAL’ CHANGES TAKING PLACE AT 67 PALL MALL WINE CLUB
...Currently, he said that the by the glass offering goes from £7 to £667 (for Sine Qua Non 1995), although he also told db that members can, if they want, have anything by the glass from the 3,800 bottles on the list, with every wine served using the Coravin wine access system.
Illustrating the intensive usage of this piece of technology, which extracts wine from a bottle without the need to remove the closure, Ashton said that 67 Pall Mall was currently employing the Coravin to ‘access’ wine 5,600 times per month.
“We are the biggest single site Coravin user in the world,” he said....
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Coravin Broadens Wine by the Glass Options
Whether you love them or hate them, ordering wine by the glass is sometimes your only option. But due to high mark-ups and inconsistent demand, a reasonable yet interesting wine-by-the-glass program can be impossible to design. That changes now, as the new Coravin system is making wines that used to be out of the one-drink drinkers grasp accessible. The new technology can tap into any bottle to extract a single glass of wine without affecting the remaining contents, and upscale restaurants around Chicago have begun to incorporate it into their wine lists...
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Coravin Catches On At Restaurants And Beyond
Jeremy Reed, sommelier at Sacramento, California’s Ella Dining Room and Bar, doesn’t blink an eye when he serves the 1999 Scarpa Tettimorra Barolo for $50 a glass. He’s able to do so using the Coravin pouring system, a technology that allows wine professionals to offer smaller tastes of high-end labels that once were economically prohibitive to pour by the glass. Through its needle access technology and pressurizing argon gas capsules, Coravin can open a bottle of still wine without cutting foil or pulling a cork, ensuring that the wine’s integrity remains intact...
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Getting Serious with @Coravin
...With Coravin’s major technological breakthrough, an innovative disruption shakes the world of fine wines. World renowned wine expert Robert Parker has called Coravin “the most transformational and exciting new product for wine lovers that has been developed or invented in the last 30-plus years.” Parker, who is largely considered one of the world’s leading authorities on wine, recently posted a series of videos about the Coravin System....
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Coravin finds unexpected market in winery tasting rooms
While the Coravin was originally conceived as a consumer product, its unique capabilities have hit a sweet spot with higher-end wineries as well as restaurants. According to Peter Johnson, Coravin’s AVA winery manager, “The Coravin System has been able to expand wineries’ guest experiences beyond what they were able to do before, such as offering library wines to clients when previously they wouldn’t open the bottle because the bottle might go bad.” It has also enabled wineries to pour vertical flights for customers, providing the opportunity to further customize the guest experience...
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Experts Taste 19th Century Wines Hidden in Czech Castle
Old castles are always home to many treasures, be it the building’s architecture, the art and furniture inside, or the castle grounds itself. In Czech Republic, one particular castle was hiding a stash of liquid treasure in the form of wines...
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The Coravin Makes Great Wines More Accessible by the Glass
...Now a new device, the Coravin, has arrived that may revolutionize the sorts of wines that restaurants can make available by the glass. The Coravin seems to solve a problem that has bedeviled humanity since the first wine was stored in urns, namely, how do you preserve wine once a container is opened, exposing it to oxygen, its archenemy?...
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THE PROS AND CONS OF INCORPORATING A CORAVIN INTO YOUR RESTAURANT'S WINE PROGRAM
Whether you love them or hate them, ordering wine by the glass is sometimes your only option. But due to high mark-ups and inconsistent demand, a reasonable yet interesting wine-by-the-glass program can be impossible to design. That changes now, as the new Coravin system is making wines that used to be out of the one-drink drinkers grasp accessible. The new technology can tap into any bottle to extract a single glass of wine without affecting the remaining contents, and upscale restaurants around Chicago have begun to incorporate it into their wine lists...
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“By The Glass” Wine With Coravin
While designed with the consumer in mind, the Coravin system has become an invaluable tool in restaurant wine programs as well. By allowing bottles to be accessed without disturbing the entire contents, sommeliers are thus able to offer rare and expensive wines by the glass without the risk of losing the remainder should it not sell...
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