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Hi, I'd like to know if anybody on this board is using Coravin and able to get good result consistently. Can you share? My experience has been mixed (and costly). More bad than good. Too many bottles ended up down the drain. Given that bunches of wine experts out there are raving about this system, this really puzzled me. I do really really want it to work though. I wonder if I was doing something wrong.
300 bucks and your bottle may explode?
This thing looks like the answer to a question nobody asked.
I'll pass
In each of those cases the bottle had been previously dropped and was weakened as a result. There have been no cases of bottles failing when they have been properly cared for. I had a bottle crack at the neck while I was opening it with a regular waiters corkscrew. Do you now want to never use one of those again?
In each of those cases the bottle had been previously dropped and was weakened as a result. There have been no cases of bottles failing when they have been properly cared for. I had a bottle crack at the neck while I was opening it with a regular waiters corkscrew. Do you now want to never use one of those again?
You'll never have a bottle explode using a waiter's corkscrew.
In each of those cases the bottle had been previously dropped and was weakened as a result. There have been no cases of bottles failing when they have been properly cared for. I had a bottle crack at the neck while I was opening it with a regular waiters corkscrew. Do you now want to never use one of those again?
that isn't quite true of all cases. If you read up on Coravin experiences on the WineBersekers board there are a number of incidences where the bottles have cracked/shattered without having been previously dropped or visibly damaged. It could be inherent bottle defects from the glass manufacturer which otherwise would've been undetectable.
fwiw, my 2 wino friends with Coravin's are less than impressed. One says the preservation doesn't last more than 3 or 4 weeks before signs of oxidation show, the other says it works better on full-bodied oaked reds than whites or lighter reds.
I work at a small local winery. Two days ago we bottled 160 cases of Merlot. I can report that among all the wineries I am familiar with, one half to one percent bottle breakage during corkage is not unusual. We broke a case and a half that day. The quality and structural soundness of new still wine bottles has declined just like the quality of virtually every other manufactured item. Any time you put unnecessary mechanical stresses on a wine bottle you're taking a risk.
I figures I would use a Coravin 100 times a year if I had one. That means I might get one cracked bottle every 10 years or so. If ever.
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