Do you still use your Coravin?

[John_Morris]

I don’t own one but had been tempted. Now I’m not sure. For young wines, the experience with the Coravin seems to about match my experience pouring off half a bottle into a 375ml when I open a wine and refrigerating that. Sometimes there’s a bit of oxidation later, but usually the 375s are fine several seeks later.

Of course, pouring off is much riskier with older wines. So I guess the Coravin might be an improvement for those.

Has anyone compared a Coravin to the Pungo? Alan Weinberg was very enthusiastic about it.

[alan_weinberg]

still am positive on Pungo. New ones have many improvements and they will retrofit older ones. I like it for the “glass a night till the bottle is gone” wife. I Pungo the bottle and just leave it in till there’s just a glass left. Stays well-preserved. Cheap cartridges, even flow, great preservation, super people to deal with.

[Andrew_W1]

@John Morris

I don’t own one but had been tempted. Now I’m not sure. For young wines, the experience with the Coravin seems to about match my experience pouring off half a bottle into a 375ml when I open a wine and refrigerating that. Sometimes there’s a bit of oxidation later, but usually the 375s are fine several seeks later.

Of course, pouring off is much riskier with older wines. So I guess the Coravin might be an improvement for those.

Has anyone compared a Coravin to the Pungo? Alan Weinberg was very enthusiastic about it.

I think the difference here is how you drink and use it. I have 3 bottles of port, 2 white wines, a cab, a Pinot and a zin all previously accessed in my cellar. This would get overly complicated to me with 375s or a pungo. With my port I rarely drink more than a glass so a 375 wouldn’t work, and for the others often my wife wants a glass of chard so I pour one of those, while I do something else (one a bottle or coravin a glass of one of the Reds). I don’t expect things to last for months (except the port, I’ve yet to notice any fade even after a year open on bottles). But need things to last more than 3-5 days .

[alan_weinberg]

@Andrew W.

@John Morris

I don’t own one but had been tempted. Now I’m not sure. For young wines, the experience with the Coravin seems to about match my experience pouring off half a bottle into a 375ml when I open a wine and refrigerating that. Sometimes there’s a bit of oxidation later, but usually the 375s are fine several seeks later.

Of course, pouring off is much riskier with older wines. So I guess the Coravin might be an improvement for those.

Has anyone compared a Coravin to the Pungo? Alan Weinberg was very enthusiastic about it.

I think the difference here is how you drink and use it. I have 3 bottles of port, 2 white wines, a cab, a Pinot and a zin all previously accessed in my cellar. This would get overly complicated to me with 375s or a pungo. With my port I rarely drink more than a glass so a 375 wouldn’t work, and for the others often my wife wants a glass of chard so I pour one of those, while I do something else (one a bottle or coravin a glass of one of the Reds). I don’t expect things to last for months (except the port, I’ve yet to notice any fade even after a year open on bottles). But need things to last more than 3-5 days .

Pungo makes pins that can be easily used to plug the large cork hole when the Pungo device is removed, allowing the device to access multiple bottles.

Both Coravin and Pungo require tilting the bottle to pour and this disturbs sediment in older bottles.

(no affiliation, yada, yada, yada, happy user)

[John_S]

Pungo owner as well here. The pins work well and I’ve kept bottles that way for 6 weeks or more quite happily. I pretty much use it for everything. For older wines, as noted, sediment is an issue so I tilt and often pour two glasses into a decanter which is what I’ll drink in one night. Then the rest of the bottle is on gas. I have had some older corks leak and the new caps should solve this problem. Customer service is fantastic. So I think I am 12-18 mos in and still a happy customer.

[Andrew_W1]

Awesome, I’ve never seen a pungo in person and had only heard it being used as Alan said he does (drain a bottle at a time). Good to hear both give users options! Sounds like everyone is happy… Which is how it should be!