Kickstarter premox collar - beserker ring

[ToddFrench]

@M. Sai

@Mel Knox

I would like a device that tells me X wine will get premoxed…before I buy it!!

This is why dealers on the secondary market would be very interested too. A winemaker might be able to tell by back lighting their own bottle, but someone who sees white wines from 100 different producers a month as no baseline - the glass color varies too much between producers.

Could you baseline the product by taking a shot of just the neck - the empty section, however small that is - as a sort of ‘tare’ like on a scale? Then, presumably, you’d have an accurate basis, no?

all rights reserved on special ‘tare’ aspect of forthcoming premox collar

[M_Sai]

@Todd F r e n c h

@M. Sai

@Mel Knox

I would like a device that tells me X wine will get premoxed…before I buy it!!

This is why dealers on the secondary market would be very interested too. A winemaker might be able to tell by back lighting their own bottle, but someone who sees white wines from 100 different producers a month as no baseline - the glass color varies too much between producers.

Could you baseline the product by taking a shot of just the neck - the empty section, however small that is - as a sort of ‘tare’ like on a scale? Then, presumably, you’d have an accurate basis, no?

all rights reserved on special ‘tare’ aspect of forthcoming premox collar

That works if the fill level is low enough - but many wines in burgundy-style bottles (in good condition) have fills that go underneath the capsule - so no way of getting a good read on the color of glass.

[ToddFrench]

@M. Sai

@Todd F r e n c h

Could you baseline the product by taking a shot of just the neck - the empty section, however small that is - as a sort of ‘tare’ like on a scale? Then, presumably, you’d have an accurate basis, no?

all rights reserved on special ‘tare’ aspect of forthcoming premox collar

That works if the fill level is low enough - but many wines in burgundy-style bottles (in good condition) have fills that go underneath the capsule - so no way of getting a good read on the color of glass.

How about the bottom of the glass?

[Tom_Wheltle]

The bottom of the bottle would be tough to get into a gap with a small circumference. Maybe a horseshoe or as “C” shape rather than a collar? Or if the collar is locked in as a design decision, perhaps a flatter disk, like a thick washer, with the active components sitting raised on opposite sides of the disk?

[David_Glasser]

@Alan Rath

It could easily be calibrated to account for the absorption of the glass itself.

With different bottles composed of glass with different absorption spectra, I’m not so sure that even this part would be easy if there wasn’t enough headspace in the neck for the gadget to take a reading through the glass alone.

[David_Glasser]

I think it’s gotta have magnets. Or crystals. Or both.

[Kevin_M_L]

@Bill Klapp

@Kevin M L

@Bill Klapp

Interesting idea, Anthony. And Taylor, MTV executives have approached Todd about sponsoring, and me about participating in, a new feature, based upon MTV’s popular Celebrity Death Match, called Wine Reviewer Death Match, which pits wine reviewers against their critics…

I thought that I had bought all copies of that picture and the negatives and destroyed them, but I was a striking figure in my youth, wasn’t I?

I hope you kept the cape.