Was on a cruise ship last year and they had 80 units - pretty cool. Wines stayed fresh for entire 11 day cruise. I would love to have one for my home but not for $5,000.
It’s a neat concept, I’ve used them at a couple of locations. There is a wine store in Queenstown, NZ that has a lot of similar pour stations. It allows the consumer to try prior to a purchase. The Centurion Lounge at San Francisco airport has 16 or 20 self serve bottle using a similar system.
It’s only as good as the wines in it. If the wines are good and the establishment has real glasses with which to taste, I like it. If you have to hunt around the store looking for an employee with a card to access it, all in order to get a 1oz pour of a $10 wine in a solo cup, then I’ll pass.
I’m very intrigued and would love to have one in my home. Just think, you could load up 4 bottles and mix it up all week! It would be especially nice to not feel like I have to finish the 2nd bottle my wife and I inevitably open on a weekend night. It would be really fun when you host a party as well, but would probably get annoying to change out the bottles too often. Does anyone actually have one in their home? I don’t really have a space for it in my current kitchen, but hoping there will be room in my next home. Also room for a cellar too…I can dream right?
