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Drinks by the Dram Offers Sample-Size Whiskies

Filed under: Spirits

We've seen the tiny bottles concept take off for wine sampling, now online retailer and independent bottler, Master of Malt, have launched a similar service for whisky. Drinks by the Dram offers 3cl (30ml) samples of a rapidly growing range of Scotch whisky and other spirits from across the globe. The UK company offers small bottles from distilleries including Glenfarclas, Bruichladdich, Edradour, Macallan and more as well as a selection of port and dessert wine samples. The drams are labeled with handmade paper, and each bottle individually wax dipped to seal it. A full list of samples is available at: http://www.masterofmalt.com/drinks-by-the-dram.

Tags: drugs, samples, scotch whisky, tinybottles, whisky, whisky sampling, whisky tasting

Little Bottles Are Big News In The Wine Industry

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Wine

Last week I wrote about Crushpad's new TinyBottles. We may be looking at a new trend here because a new companyTasting Room has also recently unveiled their sample-sized wine bottle tasting kits. While Crushpad's bottles are straight tubes the Tasting Room ones are mini wine bottles. The first winemaker to use the new systems is Seghesio Vineyards which is shipping packaged tasting kits with 50ml glass bottles. The first packages were delivered to a select group of their customers and featured the 2007 Cortina Zinfandel, 2007 San Lorenzo Zinfandel, 2007 Old Vine Zinfandel, 2006 Omaggio, 2005 San Lorenzo Petite Syrah and the 2004 Aglianico. These tasting kits are also being shipped through the wholesale channel for wine presentations to retail and restaurant accounts. In a press release, Peter Seghesio, CEO and winegrower, Seghesio Vineyards, said that he believes the new small bottles will be "revolutionary for the wine industry."

In Wines and Vines, TastingRoom's founder, Tim Bucher, says his format better preserves the wine and is more popular with consumers. Hiis company spent a year developing the new, patent-pending T.A.S.T.E. Technology (Total Anaerobic Sample Transfer Environment) which preserves wine integrity. In this process wine is transferred from larger bottles into smaller bottles in a sealed, zero-oxygen chamber. Although Seghesio is the first winemaker involved it is expected that a variety of other wineries will jump on board.

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Will TinyBottles Be A Big Idea For Wine?

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Wine

The latest innovation from custom winemaking facility Crushpad is a new way to get their boutique wines into more hands. Their new TinyBottles come in sets of four letting potential buyers taste several different wines for a lower cost, hopefully attracting those who might balk at spending $50 or more for an unfamiliar wine.

The new tasting kits are available on the site BrixR.com, a website that also includes videos and recommendations and sells wines from the various small vineyards. On Brixr a four bottle tasting pack sells for $29.95. The bottles were developed for Crushpad customers but an article on Wines & Vines says that Crushpad could also use the system for other wines include barrel samples or imports. Other applications include online tasting, retail or restaurant samples, in-flight wine tastings or review samples.

Tags: brixr, crushpad, tinybottles, wine