Philip Stein Wine Wands

by Rigel Celeste (RSS feed)
Feb 7th 2010 at 3:01PM

Philip Stein is well known for using naturally occurring frequencies to enhance luxury products and now the technology has been applied the art of drinking wine. It can be a pain to let a freshly opened bottle of wine have the time it needs to breath and reach its optimal flavors and aroma, but with one of Philip Stein's Wine Wands you won't have to wait more than 5 minutes. Encapsulated glass jewels replicate the natural frequencies of air and oxygen and speed up the aeration process. The wands are available in full or travel sizes and come in almost any color your heart desires. $325 - $525

Via JustLuxe

Tags: philip stein, PhilipStein, wand, wine, wine aerator, wine wand, WineAerator, WineWand

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reallytorkedoff Feb 8th 2010 9:12PM

The natural frequencies of air?

Are you joking or what?

Jered Feb 7th 2010 9:38PM

Luxist Team, I love the blog and enjoy reading about interesting products both in my price range and out, but seeing you promote snake oil like this incenses me! As a wine lover and collector, I recognize that there are wine-related products that work, and those that don't. Aerating your wine can allow flavors to open, and tools like the Vinturi work, although a nice decanter does just as well.

Things like this "wine wand", however, are pure unmitigated fraud. "Encapsulated glass jewels replicate the natural frequencies of air and oxygen and speed up the aeration process," is the same nonsense spouted by practitioners of homeopathy, a thoroughly discredited (and utterly insane) "treatment" for disease that leads to countless unnecessary sicknesses and deaths every year.

Crystals aren't going to do anything to your wine, there are no such things as "captured oxygen frequencies," and Philip Stein is laughing all the way to the band after he rips you off if you believe garbage like this. Please, show a bit more responsibility to your readers!

reallytorkedoff Feb 8th 2010 9:25PM

You're absolutely right, Jered. I hate to use the f-word (fraud), but this device is ridiculous to the extreme. Even drug-addled New-Agers would be hard pressed to believe this.

Honestly, what is a "glass jewel"? What frequencies do air and oxygen have that could possibly have anything to do with aerating wine?

And the biggest laugh I get out of this is that there is a "travel-size" version.

You're also right about Luxist needing to be a little more discerning. It's a great blog, but this sort of stuff is beyond the pale.

On a slightly different note, have you actually used a Vinturi and does it live up to its claims?