Coravin

Get the most out of your wine

Greg Lambrecht brought his passion for wine to his workshop. As the founder and inventor of Coravin, he combined his knowledge of medical needles with his love of wine to create a unique wine storage system that allowed him to pour wine without removing the cork. In the late 1990s, he took his expertise in making ultra-soft and exceptionally precise needles for administering chemotherapy to children to his home workshop, where he began working on a device that would change the way he drank wine.

When Greg's wife was pregnant with their first child, he was without a drinking partner. Now he had to drink a whole bottle as soon as he opened it, or pour the bottle down the drain as soon as it spoiled. What he really wanted, however, was the perfect glass of wine. Determined to find a solution, Greg put his dual degrees from MIT to work designing and prototyping a device that would allow him to pour wine by the glass. It would be more than eight years before he developed the first Coravin wine storage system, the model C1000.

During his years of testing, Greg worked with winemakers and other experts in the wine industry to taste their wines blind with his device. They tested bottles opened three months, six months, one year and three years earlier against fresh bottles of the same wines. Greg continues to test Coravin, even testing a 14-year-old bottle he had opened with one of his original prototypes. With every blind tasting, the results are clear: wines opened with the Coravin wine preservation system remain as fresh as the day they were bottled, even years later. Today, wine professionals and wine lovers around the world enjoy wine, glass by glass.

The Coravin Wine Storage System makes every glass you pour as good as the first, weeks, months or even years later.

Unlike other wine preservatives, which only slow down the oxidation of wine, the Coravin wine preservation system is designed to pour wine without removing the cork. As a result, wine always tastes as if it has just been opened, even years later.

The needle is the pinnacle of Coravin's technology. The Coravin needle gently passes through corks without moving the cork material. Once the needle is removed, the cork simply expands back to its normal shape. When the wine is passed through the needle, it is replaced with pure argon gas so that the remaining wine never comes into contact with oxygen and remains as fresh as the day it was bottled.

Extend the life of wines with screw caps to three months with Coravin silicone screw caps. This specially designed accessory replaces the original screw cap closure and features a silicone liner that resists fifty perforations by the Coravin needle before it must be replaced.