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No More Red Wine Stains
Just in time for holiday dinners and lots of red wine drinking, I spied this great invention. It’s called Drop Stop, and it’s a simple circle of shiny silver plastic-y stuff that you roll up and stick in the mouth of an open wine bottle for pouring. It acts like the metal versions you see in restaurants, so that when you set the bottle back down, the wine doesn’t dribble out the side. No ruined tablecloths.
Drop Stop, $5.95 for two
Posted by | Wednesday, November 26, 2008 at 2:04pm | 5 comments
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" acts like the metal versions you see in restaurants"
Maybe I'm eating in the wrong places, but I don't think I've
ever has someone shove a rolled up tube of foil into
my wine bottle before.
What keeps it from falling out when you're pouring and
spilling wine all over the table? What keeps it from falling
into the bottle? If it does fall in, is there any way to get it
back out short of smashing the bottle? Why do I need two
of them? Red and white? But white wine isn't going to
stain in the first place. If you're really OCD about little drips
of wine why not get a speed pourer for about half the price
and which will last for 20 years. What is it that makes this
a "great invention"?
Was it Gallo or Roma wine that used to sell its budget wines in "dripless bottles" back in the 50s? How did they do it?
Chuckles: You are way too skeptical, these really are a great invention. They stay in the bottle very easily because the rolled piece of metal wants to unroll. So there is a spring like effect. Because they are so thin, they do not drip. They are much classier looking and pour much better than speed pourers. You need multiples of these because you will be having wine tastings and have more than one bottle open at once.
These are great things, but they are not new; I have been using them for years (and I have never had one fall into a bottle, see spring effect above).
They are def. not new, they are used all the time in Europe (in fact, we've gotten a few as give-aways in issues of French wine magazines)
They're a great invention and they work really well. I wouldn't use them for pouring wine at dinner table, but as an owner of a winery who occasionally offers tastings of a $60 Cabernet, I use them to keep glasses and table cloths looking nice and drip free.