Gadgetory

we're here today at Huber's orchard and winery in starlight Indiana taking a look at the cuvette smart wine bottle this is how it works you order each cartridge through cuvee which is partnered with about 14 California wineries so far the cuvette bottle fits over the aluminum cartridges and activates the valves in the neck of each cartridge but only when you tilt it to port that way though normally you'd be exposing the wine to air and it would start oxidizing in the bottle with cuvee it doesn't thus the wine degrades over 30 days rather than the typical two or three it's a cool concept and from a tech journalists perspective it works decently well but i'm no somali ace so we came here to get an expert's opinion on how well this thing actually extends the life of an open wine bottle and to see how well they do in a blind taste test do you want to talk a little bit about what oxidation means for wine for us and the winemaking feel that's oxygen is kind of the enemy of wine we want as little oxidation during aging as possible so we preserve the fruit character of the wine and the flavors so essentially what we're gonna be doing here is taking you over to a table and doing a taste test if you're okay with that and basically taking a look at this device that helps avoid oxidation for wines after they've been opened do you think you'd be up for that I'll do my best all right so essentially what we've got is three wines here they're all the same same vintage and everything this right here is a newly opened bottle and then these two are both three days old but you don't know which one has been preserved and which one has okay so if you want to start off you can just try that one and talk a little bit about the tasting as you do it it's very nice it's full-bodied has good structure it's a very nice bottle of wine so if you had to guess between these two over here which one was which what would you think the number two is the preservation system and the number one is the bottle that's been open for three days okay so you think that number two is closer to the just open bottle of wine yes so number one is actually the preservationist system you can see that that color and the the aroma of number two are somewhat more muted and you get more of the oak and not as much of the fresh fruit how do both of them compare to the freshly opened bottle the aroma is just a little bit more fresh in number one than there were two compared to the freshly opened bottle of course the freshly opened bottle is is in my opinion better than either one of the other ones but at the end of the day the cuvette bottle retains some of the flavors and the aroma of the wine better but the other bottle retained other flavors better so neither one really lived up to the newly opened bottle of Chardonnay so right now for me I'd have to pass on this product until the methods of preservation improve for the people at Huber's who hosted us and participated in our blind taste test we'd like to give you a big thank you