If you like to sip on a glass of wine now and then, rather than to chug a whole bottle like a man, perhaps we can interest you in the Coravin gadget: it lets you extract some wine without even removing the cork. It does this by inserting a thin needle through the cork and allowing you to remove some liquid while replacing the displaced air with inert argon gas. This way the remaining wine won’t oxidize and eventually go bad. The needle is so thin that the cork reseals itself, and the bottle remains as good as unopened for as long as you have it. Granted, you could just try to recork it, but that’s often hard to do and the sometimes brittle wood can crumble. Not good.
Coravin is rather expensive at $299 for the system plus $10 for each Argon cartridge and may only be suitable for the more well-heeled oenophiles. Restaurants on the other had would be well advised to take a closer look, since this could allow them to hold a much larger selection of wines that can be sold by the glass.
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Mixing Coca-Cola and wine is a thing in some parts, especially in Basque culture where it’s called Kalitoxo. Its rising popularity may help explain why France’s Châteaux en Bordeaux’s Hausmann Famille will be releasing Rouge Sucette next month. Translating to “Red Lollipop”, the concotion is made up of 75% wine, 25% sugar, water and untold amounts of cola flavoring (yes, we know the numbers don’t really add up). It’ll have about 9% alcohol content and will be best consumed straight out of the fridge. If you want to avoid the sugar rush however, we suggest just making your own and mixing in Diet Coke instead. Just saying…
[ The Telegraph ] VIA [ Technabob ]
Love wine? Love soda? Even though the Rouge Sucette contains elements of both, there’s no guarantee that you’ll love it though. It’s a Coca-Cola-flavored wine by Châteaux en Bordeaux’s Hausmann Famille, and it’s going to be relesaed next month.
Rouge Sucette, which translates to ‘Red Lollipop’, contains 75% wine, 25% sugar, water, and a whole lot of cola flavoring. Of course, you could probably just mix wine and Coke in your own home, but it’s not going to be the same, that much I can tell you.
What do you think? Fun concoction or weird booze?
[via Incredible Things]
Soda junkie winos rejoice! Next month Châteaux en Bordeaux’s Hausmann Famille is rolling out Coca-Cola flavored wine. Rouge Sucette (‘Red Lollipop’) is 75% wine, 25% sugar, water, and soda flavoring and even though you could probably mix this up at home, it’s 100000% convenient. Kind of like peanut butter and jelly that comes in a squirt bottle. Jk jk there’s nothing convenient about a food product called Goober. Anyway, I think the real here question is: does this stuff come in a box? Call me a wine snob, but I only drink wine out of the box.
Binge drinking is defined as having more than four drinks at a time. Which means, master wino, that polishing off a bottle in one evening indicates you have a bit of a problem. Hey, I don’t make the rules. With the Air Cork, you can enjoy a glass or two and rest easy knowing there’s more waiting for you tomorrow. Whatever is left doesn’t need to suffer, because unlike regular stoppers that leave your leftover vino exposed to air, and consequently, oxygenation, this wine savor creates a protective, impermeable seal between the bottle’s contents and the air above. So get one and take it easy on the Cab.
Oh snap, y’all — movie night just got drunker! Popcorn maker Populence teamed up with winemaker Kim Crawford to make Wine-Infused Popcorn. There are two varieties: Pinot Noir Drizzle and Sauvignon Blanc Kettle. The popcorn is meant to be paired with the wine its infused with. Cool! But what if I wanna mix and match? I don’t have any Pinot Noir on hand, but I do have a box of Franzia Chillable Red! You’re right — after downing a box of wine and a gallon of popcorn none of these silly details are really gonna matter.
Buying a regular screw-top wine bottle can mean a number of things in some circles: 1) you have no appreciation of good wine; 2) you are cheap; 3) you are an efficient drinker (read: alcoholic). Overplayed (and possibly inaccurate) stereotypes aside, there’s a stigma to metal screw-tops that’s only redeemed by the typically lower cost of the wine they contain. It’s an often difficult choice at the liquor store, a tradeoff between class and pice. But the Helix cork pictured above could bridge that gap. In testing for about four years, the product is a result of a collaboration between “cork manufacturer Amorim and those at bottle-making company O-I. The new threaded, resealable design (and matching threaded bottle neck) is aimed at the “popular premium” wine market, which includes bottles that retail for between $8-$15, roughly.” Yes, this does mean these types of new corks will only work with matching bottles, since the grooves must fit in the treads to create a tight seal. You do, however, end up with an easily resealable bottle of wine, sold at a reasonable price, that doesn’t come with the common stigma of metal screw-tops.
And why spend 4 years testing a cork? Well, the companies were making sure the “agglomerated cork” material used didn’t end up affecting the taste, colour or aroma of the wine. It doesn’t. And even though the product was unveiled yesterday at the Vinexpo in Bordeaux, it’s going to be a couple of years before you see it in shelves.
VIA [ Gizmodo ]
It’s like beating Kong in a barrel… Wait, that’s not how the saying goes. But you can say it now. This custom-built Donkey Kong tabletop arcade machine has been put into a barrel. Why? So you can drink and game of course.
Joel Griffin Dodd wanted a fully functional game of Donkey Kong in an old barrel so that he could have beer and cocktails on top of it. How drunk can you get? You probably shouldn’t try to jump over it, though that’s better that than smashing it with a mallet, I suppose.
It looks like a fairly straightforward build. Just put together a mini arcade system and stick it inside a barrel. Then put some glass on top of course. Not that I thought of it or was able to build one myself. Nice work, Joel.
[via Obvious Winner]