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'A Date With Wine' Stopper Eliminates Guessing

No more wondering how long that opened bottle of wine has been sitting around and if it's still drinkable, not if you can get your hands on one of these "A Date with Wine" wine stoppers from designer George Lee. Drawing from modern and industrial influences the stopper features clean, contemporary lines and is made of food grade stainless steel and silicone. The "date" part comes in the form of twistable rings on the stopper's top that can be set to reflect the exact month and day the wine was opened. Clean, easy, and sophisticated, no more sniffing or sipping and wondering if a bottle has gone over or not.

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Clef du Vin Wine Enhancer

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The Clef du Vin is an intriguing wine gadget that promises that it can replicate the key elements of the wine aging process at an accelerated rate of one year per second. The gadget only works in wines with aging potential but it can help young vintages become softer and more subtle. To use it you dip the Clef du Vin into the wine glass at 1-2 second intervals. The Clef du Vin deluxe version with the bottle, glass and pocket versions in a leather gift box with instructions and cloth. The set sells for $249.95.

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Pek VinoVault

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This is the first time I have seen a wine preserver and a wine refrigerator in the same gadget. The Pek VinoVault uses argon technology to preserve open bottles of wine but also stores and cools up to 14 bottles. The VinoVault displays a bottle in the viewing window which is lit with blue LED lights. It sells for $300.

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BeWine Connected USB Drive

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You can find a lot of information about Bordeaux online but this bottle-shaped USB flash drive from BeWine Connected provides info you can take with you anywhere. The drive contains the wine cellar management software "Open Cellar" a guide to the Grand Cru from the Bordeaux area and their classification, videos of tastings by Michel Rolland, a screensaver and wallpaper dedicated to wine, ringtones on wine for your mobile phone, and access to the BeWineConnected Club with links to our partners and wine professionals. The drive can also be used to hold your data. The wine-related information takes up about half of the one gigabyte memory. It sells for 35 euros.

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Carl Mertens Wine Thermometer

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Okay so we know overly warm wine in the summertime is a bad thing and that old shove it in the freezer trick is not an exact science. Hence the proliferation of wine thermometer gadgets. The latest to be making the rounds of the blogosphere is Carl Mertens wine thermometer. A nifty little cuff that slips on the outside of the bottle and shows the temperature of the wine by using a liquid crystal display and a heat sensitive band. We've seen a similar product before but this one has the added bonus of showing whether the temperature of a bottle is within the ideal range for the type of wine listed on the band.

Three's only one problem with this, you are measuring the temperature of the bottle not the temperature of the wine. This might be a problem if you just shoved it in ice to cool it off and the glass is cool but the juice inside is still not at optimum temperature. This gadget sells for $39.99 but for $10 more you could get the kind that lets you test the wine in the glass which seems like a far more reliable indicator. Although frankly a difference of a degree or two has never been as big a factor in my enjoyment of a bottle as the wine itself.

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Nuvo Vino Wine Thermometer

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The Nuvo Vino wine thermometer is a dandy new wine gadget for testing the temperature of wine. It uses an infrared sensor to take the wine's temperature without sticking anything in the wine. The company says that the best method to use the gadget is to hover it an inch or two above the wine in a glass but it can also be tested in the bottle or outside the glass. The gadget has a retractable sensor. It comes with a wallet size recommended wine serving temperature card and sells for $49.95.

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EuroCave Vin au Verre Wine Dispenser

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The next step up from the Hammacher Schlemmer open wine bottle system I covered a while back is the Vin au Verre from EuroCave. The Vin au Verre is stainless steel with brass fittings and lets you have eight bottles (four reds and four whites) open at once. You can also store an additional eight bottles at the proper serving temperature. Like the Hammacher Schlemmer product the Vin au Verre uses nitrogen gas to preserve the wine. Once opened the wines are in peak form for two to three weeks. It sells for $4,495.

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Catania Wine Enhancer

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Would you believe crystals and minerals to improve your wine? We’ve seen magnets and electrolysis but this one is even more outlandish. The Catania wine enhancer promises to fix wine through the use of crystals, vibrations and minerals. The wine enhancer promises to work right through the bottle, or even the glass. In addition to the crystal-studded bases that the wine bottle rests upon they also sell little by-the-glass wine ehancers that affix to the glass through one of those little plastic sucker thingies for $39. The deluxe version shown here sells for $129. Their website boasts quotes from the Boston Herald, Wine Spectator and a bunch of other places saying it actually works but I’m not buying it.

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