The Coravin system was invented by Greg Lambrecht, a man with a background in physics, mechanical engineering, nuclear power, and (funnily enough) medical devices.

“I fell in love with wine as a young man and had amassed an at-home collection that began collecting dust while my wife was pregnant. I still wanted to enjoy great glasses of wine, but didn’t want to commit to full bottles. For me, wine is a thinking beverage – it’s something you contemplate, experience side by side… So here I am, an expert in needles. In particular, needles that don’t do damage to things. So I came up with an idea to pass a non-coring needle through the cork while it was still in the bottle. My hope was that I could then return the remaining wine to my cellar, and enjoy it again and again, whenever I desired. I’m a science geek, so what followed was a decade of development and testing until I had a system that left the cork in place, but still delivered great glasses of wine, indistinguishable from untouched bottles.”

 

“Gadget of the Year: It could have been the iPhone, iPad2 or a Leica D-Lux Camera – but it’s none of them. I looked for a gadget that is unique and solves a problem never solved before. My hands-down favourite is the Coravin Wine System.” – Phil Baker, San Diego Source

 

“Nothing I know of preserves wine in an opened or ‘accessed’ bottle for years as this system does.” – Jancis Robinson, Wine Writer & Critic

 

“Coravin is the most transformational and exciting new product for wine lovers that has been invented/developed in the last 30+ years. This is a killer device…[it’s] going to revolutionise drinking wine…” – Robert Parker Jr., Wine Writer, Expert & Critic.