Vino Keeno, The Grapevine for the Recreational Wino

Since I’m all about promoting improved wine drinking with the RoJaus Wine Decanter, I thought I’d share a great article that ran in the August issue of Nashville Lifestyles magazine.

When It Pours, It Reigns
A local engineer improves the traditional wine decanter

It’s amazing how long we put up with things that don’t work or buy products that work poorly just because they’re all that’s available. Millennia passed with humankind lugging their belongings around on stretchers supported by poles that dragged on the ground instead of wheels. Eons went by before someone thought to invent the umbrella. And until just a few years ago, wine connoisseurs the world over had access only to an inadequate and clumsy system of decanting that had barely evolved from biblical times. That’s where Nashvillian Jim Moore comes in.

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Just in case you have leftover wine and want to look cool, I wanted to share these funky bottle stoppers I saw at an arts and crafts festival this weekend. They are called “KnobStoppers” and they are vintage door knobs turned into wine bottle stoppers. How groovy is that?

My favorite was the old hot and cold bathtub faucet handles, but they don’t have a picture of it on their site. Regardless, go check out the pictures and see if you find one you like!

Click here to see the KnobStoppers!

Wow, whaddyll they think of next? Unbreakable wine glasses? Yup. Mikasa has a new line of stemware made of a new material called Kwarx, that is supposedly unbreakable.

Imagine the fun you could have at your next soiree, tossing your wine glasses into the hearth, only to retrieve them and try again later!

We own beaucoup Mikasa stemware, and I gotta give it thumbs up. Of course it is old-fashioned and breakable, but it is purdy and sturdy nonetheless. What I find interesting is that Mikasa changed the shape of the wine glasses to help open up the flavor of the wines. Apparently we don’t cellar our wines anymore and are drinking a lot of younger wines. Hmmm… sounds like a job for the RoJaus decanter!

Kwarx and RoJaus, a dynamic duo indeed.

Click here to read the whole article. Thanks to Wineo from Wineography for alerting me to this un-breaking news!

I want to share with you the decanter that has helped my appreciation of wine tremendously. It is called the RoJaus Grapevine Wine Decanter, and it has truly improved my wine drinking experience.

The RoJaus is an ingenious device that allows you to instantly aerate your wine, with a super-cool looking presentation. Just pour your bottle of wine over the glass ball which totally opens up the flavor. The wine then passes through the strainer which captures sediment, and fills the decanter. Then fill your glass at the nozzle (think: wine on tap). It really is that simple. But there’s more.

This decanter makes red wines taste so much better, especially the inexpensive ones. The wine tastes like it has been open and breathing all day, even though it was just poured out of the bottle. One taste test and you’ll see. Compare the wine straight from the bottle, to the same wine from the decanter. There is a big difference in the same wine following the five seconds it took to pour it into the decanter. Remarkable.

What makes this decanter stand out from all the other decanters is the presentation. It was designed to resemble a bunch of grapes hanging from a vine. I love showing it off to all my guests and having them try a taste test. It’s perfect for a wine tasting party!

Go here to see a video of the decanter in use and read the RoJaus FAQ. Go, check it out. Really… go. I’ll wait here.