To serve and protect – Huon Hooke

To serve and protect – Huon Hooke

TheAge.com.au, Executive Style Huon Hooke November 8, 2011 Huon Hooke is a leading independent wine writer, who makes his living entirely out of writing, judging, lecturing and educating about wine. A journalist first and wine professional second, he has tertiary qualifications in both fields and has worked in wineries and in wine retailing. He’s been writing about wine since 1983. He is best known for his weekly columns in the Sydney Morning Herald Good Living section, and regular articles and tasting notes in Gourmet Traveller Wine Magazine, for which he is contributing editor, a...

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Anna Uncorked

Anna Uncorked

Anna Publisher, Anna Uncorked – Living life to the fullest… one glass at a time In late August, I grabbed a bottle of our stand by Dominio de Eguren Protocolo `08 $7.99 ***(*) and by day three with the Wine Shield, it was still great and I declared the Wine Shield a success. It really is such simple technology, a food grade barrier that floats on top of the wine and protects it from oxygen and oxidation. I wanted to REALLY put it to the test, so last week I grabbed a bottle of another standby Almez Garnacha and started trying to see what the outer limits of the Wine...

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WineState Magazine – Press Release (October 2011)

WineState Magazine – Press Release (October 2011)

Winestate’s Magazines Peter Jackson Wine Marketing Manager www.winestate.com.au WineState Magazine’s Peter Jackson was once again extremely impressed with Wine Shield’s preformance at the recent 2011 WineState Australia & New Zealand Wine of the Year awards. Winestate Magazine conducted the 2011 Australian and NZ Wine of the Year Finals during the week 4-7 October 2011 in Adelaide culminating in a Subscriber Tasting at Australia’s National Wine Centre. The wines judged were the Top 400 from over 11,000 wines submitted. These Top 400 had been awarded the 5 star...

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Preserving wine with a Wine Shield

Preserving wine with a Wine Shield

Matt, LocalWine.tv There’s a new way to preserve wine. It doesn’t require rubber corks or vacuums. It can be inserted right into the bottle. This new preservation system is called a Wine Shield and comes to us from Australia. Recently the folks at Wine Shield were kind enough to send me a sample so that I could share my experiences with you. The shield itself is a flexible plastic disk about as big around as the inside diameter of a bottle of wine. The edges are frayed and there are air pockets to keep the shield on top of the wine. How It Works Once you’ve poured a glass or...

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Another way to keep opened wine fresh – Examiner.com

Another way to keep opened wine fresh – Examiner.com

Tom Peiffer, Wine Examiner Got wine left over that just can’t be consumed? Have a bunch of partial bottles left over after tasting party? As many know, you can’t just put the corks back in and expect the wine to be much good later on. This is because exposure to oxygen in the air can ruin wine in a day. Oxygen quickly combines with many of the ingredients in wine that provide flavor, effectively destroying (oxidizing) them. People in the winery business are keenly aware of this problem and take extensive precautions to make sure that their storage containers containing wine...

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Brix Chicks – So many wines…… So little time…..

Brix Chicks – So many wines…… So little time…..

Xandria, Publisher, Brixchicks.com What do you do when you open a good bottle of red and just cannot finish it? You want to preserve it of course, and now there is a new, inexpensive way to do it. The kind people at wine Shield recently sent me a sample and I, being a single drinker, wanted to give it a try. The wine shield is an actual food-grade plastic disc that you insert in the bottle that covers the surface of the wine. They claim it will reduce oxidation for up to 5 days and it can be used on red, white and rose wines. Here are the results of my experiment: I decided to use a...

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Luscious Lushes – A Wine Blog

Luscious Lushes – A Wine Blog

Winebratsf Publisher, Luscious Lushes – a wine blog If you’re like me, it is a rare day when we have leftover wine. Actually, that’s not entirely true – I often have leftover wine. Until the next day! If you’re not like me however, and you need to preserve your wine for a day or more, and protect it from the elements, you might need a way to keep those flavors in tact as you work your way through the bottle. I recently had the chance to try a new wine preservation system, The Wine Shield. This oddly strange looking device literally covers the wine in the bottle,...

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The Wine Shield Trials – Frank Morgan

The Wine Shield Trials – Frank Morgan

Frank Morgan Publisher, Drinkwhatyoulike.com Like most wine bloggers, I regularly receive offers of wine samples, books, wine trinkets, stemware, different accessories like wine stain removers, aerators, and even a tchotcke that supposedly ages wine in just a few minutes (only imparted a metallic taste for me). As a natural skeptic I tend to view all wine trinkets and accessories with a jaundiced eye. Recently a company called Wine Preserva, an Australian firm, contacted me about trying their wine preservation product, the wine shield — a thin plastic disc that, when inserted into...

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