Las Vegas, Nevada, 2016. The scene of the yearly Consumer Electronics Show (CES). Each year, hundreds of thousands of people flock to the expo in the hopes of catching a glimpse of the future. This year crowds were not left disappointed.
On display were a variety of gadgets, vehicles and accessories, all designed with the ever-growing future market in mind. Almost every product you could think of was on display. From drones that could fly a single passenger from one destination to another, to virtual reality headsets, to wearable earpieces that can literally change how you hear the world around you.
What better venue to have unveiled the D-Vine? A crafty little invention created by the folks at 10-Vins. This clever machine acts just like your very own sommelier, pouring a single serving of carefully selected wine to exactly the right specifications. It does all this without have to wait for the wine to sit in a carafe for three hours.
Nantes-based company 10-Vins enters the scene
10-Vins is a company based out of Nantes, France. It is the brainchild of three friends that just happen to love wine very much, and who also just happen to be engineers.
Thibaut Jarrousse, Jérôme Pasquet and Luis Da Silva created the company with a desire to deliver excellent wine, by the glass, in your own home, that tasted exactly as it was intended to. In order to do this, they had to develop special 10 centiliter bottles with microchips in them.
Once placed into the D-Vine, the wine moves through the machine in the way that the microchip instructs. It is heated or cooled, and aerated to the specifications of the winemaker, all under one minute.
The trio left nothing to chance in their designs, working carefully with winemakers to ensure they created the best wine glasses, best wine capsules, and even the best self-cleaning process in between pours of wine.
Essentially, what you have is a machine that operates under the same idea as the Nestle Nespresso machine or the Keurig machine from the US. Except this time, the focus is on wine and not single servings of coffee.
Individual pours of wine for individual tastes ensure no wine wastage
Where this would come in handy is if you were entertaining a large group of people that each had different tastes in wine. You would not need to go through the process of opening many different bottles and possibly having to waste the leftover wine if it went bad. Each guest would choose from the selection available, and be able to have a glass of wine that tasted as if it were prepared by a professional.
The company’s core values of passion, friendliness, and boldness certainly show through in their dedication to the best possible tasting wine per glass, their desire to share wine with the world, and their respect for individual winemaker’s traditions.
Selected by the experts
10-Vins has gone to every end to make sure that their product is of top quality and this is reflected in their approach to the wine that they are serving. Currently, the company sells around 30 different French wines including vintages from Bordeaux and Burgundy.
Now that the D-Vine has been presented at the CES in Las Vegas, the company is also going to begin working with American winemakers. They are already well on their way, and working closely with vineyards in Napa.