Wine from Water?

[mgaretz]

This just came across my screen.  A new device that makes a ready to drink bottle of wine in just three days.  

 

http://www.crowdfundinsider.com/2014/03/33422-miracle-machine-wants-change-winemaking-industry-forever/

 

It will be interesting to see what happens with this.  (Wine from Water is a bit of marketing hype - it appears to take grape juice concentrate and other flavor components to simulate the aging process.)

[rotuts]

""  for $10 per month you will receive enough ingredients to make a bottle a week. ""

 

you can get that now at TJ's for 1.99.  ready to drink.

 

this cant be real.

 

Dont you think Gallo would be all over it ?

 

great find though ....

Edited March 10, 2014 by rotuts (log)

[mgaretz]

""  for $10 per month you will receive enough ingredients to make a bottle a week. ""

 

you can get that now at TJ's for 1.99.  ready to drink.

 

this cant be real.

 

Dont you think Gallo would be all over it ?

 

great find though ....

 

Yes, you can get wine at that price ($2.50 a bottle) ready to drink, but practicality has never been much of consideration in the DIY market.

 

I also don't doubt that it is real.  When I first starting drinking reds, we wouldn't even consider opening a bottle until it was at least 5 years old, with 8-10 years being the norm.  Now it's less than a year from grapes to bottle, even with premium wines.  Technology has changed this and will continue to do so.

 

(FYI, I once met the owner of the winery that makes Charles Shaw for TJs (and a ton of other low priced wines).  Their cost for the finished wine was 25 cents per GALLON.  The bottles cost more than the wine that's in them.)

[rotuts]

""  25 cents per GALLON.  The bottles cost more than the wine that's in them. ""

 

Ive always suspected this.  Im pretty low shelf, but thankfully TJ's keep the RS at the back of the store.

 

500 cases a week they sell

[lesliec]

I can't comment on cheap wines available in the US, but experience would suggest 'ready to drink' may not be the appropriate term for a $2.50 bottle!

 

It's an interesting device, though.  They seem to be aiming for more of a quality product, albeit 'instant', than supermarket sludge.

[rotuts]

Id love to hear from someone here that tries this.

 

$ 10 gets an OK bottle from TJ's

 

if this were 'OK +'  well ....

[mgaretz]

Id love to hear from someone here that tries this.

 

$ 10 gets an OK bottle from TJ's

 

if this were 'OK +'  well ....

 

Remember it's $10 a month with a bottle a week - that's $2.50 a bottle.  

 

One of the downsides, unless you own bottling equipment, is that the wine will have to be drunk immediately as it will just be open to the air.

[rotuts]

no bottle here would last a week.

 

were are taking hours.

[Unpopular Poet]

Update:  http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/03/12/289455986/water-to-wine-machine-sound-too-good-to-be-true-it-is

 

Just a marketing scheme.

[rotuts]

"""  7,000 people to sign up ""

 

so these people 'lost' their $$$

 

????

 

and that helps 'clean water ' how ???

[Norm Matthews]

Many years ago the wrestling coach at the high school had a farm that was once a dairy. He used one barn for his rodeo roping horses and the milking barn for hay storage. He rented the farm house to me and across the driveway was the old bottling plant which I turned into a pottery.  The house was on the Smoky Hill River and there were grape vines down the hill by the river.  I made about 20 to 30 gallons of wine a year. I used the basement because the cool temperature kept the secondary fermentation slow for better taste.  Without fermentation locks on the carboys, the wine would spoil or oxidize before the wine finished fermenting.  I had to measure sugar and acid content of the grape juice and balance it before primary fermentation or it would not produce enough alcohol to keep.  After fermentation it had to be clarified and bottled. 

 

I have no idea what kind of advances have been made since then but I have trouble imagining how there could be a finished bottle in such a short time.

Edited April 5, 2014 by Norm Matthews (log)

[mgaretz]

"""  7,000 people to sign up ""

 

so these people 'lost' their $$$

 

????

 

and that helps 'clean water ' how ???

 

They didn't take any money.  The people only signed up for more info.

[paulraphael]

The good news is that for about the same money, you can get a filter that will turn it back into water.