Has anyone tried a Coravin on Port bottles?

[Roy Hersh]

I've not used, nor seen a Coravin with Port, so am curious if others have tried it on their own bottles, or even seen it being used?

If so, what has your experience been?

Also, is it worth the price of admission?

[Bradley Bogdan]

I've seen a coravined (if you can turn it into a verb) bottle and had contents of it a week or so after "opening" at a friends. The wine was a middle tier classed growth bordeaux from '82, so should be mature but not full on Forest floor and no fruit, providing it's a good bottle. He stated the bottle was sound at first taste, perhaps slightly ahead of where others he had have been, but within reasonable expectations for the wine. The wine was solidly into the fading category when I tried it the 8 days later, but not dead as you'd expect a 30+ y/o cab blend to be after more than a week. We both noted that the cork seemed to have had trouble filling back into the needle hole he made when using the Coravin initially. You couldn't see clear through, but it wasn't snug, so I wonder if that's a constant risk with older corks. At the high price per bottle you pay (unless using the thing constantly after purchase, and even then the gas is pricey) it seems a toy to have if you want to drink a bottle yourself over 3-4 days, but not the miracle tool advertised, unless used on younger, more consistently elastic corks. And then, what's the point?


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