Showing posts with label wine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wine. Show all posts

Saturday, March 2, 2024

Crazy ideas from the world of wine (I)

Who said that the world of wine was austere and without any innovation? Make no mistake, this universe is overflowing with creativity and many companies are proposing ideas as crazy as each other, with the aim of improving the tasting experience. 

We showed it to you in our article dedicated to gifts to give to winelovers, these wine lovers. Whether in space, in the era of artificial intelligence or even 60 meters deep under the sea, companies make bottles of wine, their source of creativity.

A round bottle for drinking wine in space!

How to drink wine in space? This is what the designer Octave De Gaulle, grandson of Charles De Gaulle, asked himself; he even made it his end-of-studies project. Weightless in space, liquids no longer flow and form spheres to minimize their contact with air. Cosmonauts therefore have to drink through straws: practical for water, but the antithesis of wine tasting criteria. 

The toric, ring-shaped bottle invented by Octave De Gaulle ensures that the wine always goes towards the cork. In addition, it is easily transportable around the arm and can be filled by placing it flat on the ground. Practical in itself, to facilitate tasting wherever you want, even light years from Earth!

(to be continued)