 The Corvin Model 6. I'm gonna show you how to use it give my thoughts and talk about who it's good for That's all coming up. Oh Welcome back to exotic wine travel. I am your host Matthew Horkey welcome back to the show. We help you drink adventurously so you can expand your palette Expand your mind and today we're gonna expand palates and mines with a cool wine gizmo. That's right I've got the Corvin Model 6 here Corvin's a system. I've loved using for a lot of years I have the Model 2 elite back in the USA. So I'm glad that I also have this brand new Model 6 Corvin was invented by a man named Greg Lambrecht You know when his wife got pregnant He wanted to come home and have a nice glass of wine without having to waste the entire bottle Thus the Corvin was born. Corvin came out in the early 2010s I think around 2013 it kind of was a game-changer Revolutionized wine how people consume wine especially in restaurants wine bars or at home It basically is a system that has a medical grade needle that goes through the cork Argonne gas is pumped into the needle and then wine comes out you take this out And you don't even have to remove the cork your bottle stays fresh you can stay fresh for weeks months and even years This model 6 does have advancement since easier to use than my old Model 2 elite Corvin comes out like this You you get this all ready to go first. We have to load the the handle here with an Argonne capsule Your system will come with two of these bad boys Corvin says that you get about 15 five ounce. That's about 150 milliliter pours So about 15 glasses out of one canister. I use this for tasting a lot I've found that I've gotten 35 45 sometimes up to 50 pours Smaller pours by using one capsule if you have the proper technique which I'm going to show you here first We have to load this up so you unscrew the handle nice and easy You drop the capsule in the round side in first With the plastic side up top this is this is going to snap into the system and you go ahead and you thread it Until you hear a snap That means the Argonne seal is broken. This is all ready to go now First thing how to get optimal use out of this bad boy What I like to do first of all is make sure that you pump the trigger the trigger the silver trigger right here Just wants to get a little bit of gas out so there's not air in here and you're not throwing air directly into your wine Nice and easy. We're gonna access a bottle here. Actually have the new port for clean. Oh, this is from Bahra This is bad old vine bag from Portugal Need pours a producer. I love makes his red wines kind of in a burgundy style. This is only 11% Alcohol, so I'm super excited about that before you're preparing to put the Corvin system into the bottle You know you can the needle can go right through the metal capsule or this one's topped with wax I like to remove the wax or the capsule just to make sure this is a natural cork You don't want you want to make sure it's not a plastic cork or a bar top because you could break the needle Now here's where the Corvin model 6 is a little advantage over the model to elite in the past with the model to elite You would have to make sure you set the clamps right You would have to pinch the clamps get it right before you put the needle in now with this model 6 They have what's Corvin's calling smart clamps, and it's super easy All you do is set it on top of the bottle hold on just so you're guiding it and all you do is Push it straight down The clamp locks into place and the needle goes right through it's super easy a lot easier than the last system Now here's the key you take the wine you put the bottle at about a 45 degree angle So it's pointing down and then you just hit this trigger with short bursts, and you'll see the wine flow out Some people hold on to the trigger that wastes a lot of gas You just got to use short spurts that pumps gas in and then wine comes out This is the most efficient way to use the argon gas When you have enough or what I wait is what I wait for is when the wine stops dripping down, and then I turn it up You don't hear any gas leaking. That means I've been efficiently using it easy with the smart clamp system It's super easy. Just hold the bottle here, and all you do is lift Straight up the system comes right off. Let me take a look at this wine here Oh Wonderful wine If you buy screw top wines if you buy high-quality Australian New Zealand wines you can get these screw caps and basically what you do is you take the screw cap off of your wine And you put this screw cap in it has a little membrane so you can stick the Corvin needle in The bottle won't hold as long But Corvin, but I've tried it before and tried with bottles after two months using the screw cap system And the wine was still pretty fresh now Corvin claims that bottles with natural cork Can last for weeks months and even years? I only have experience with wines holding pretty well after a couple of months I talked to a lot of my Semele friends. They say actually when they use this in the restaurant Less than five percent of wines that they first access for the Corvin actually notice There's some oxidations or some degradation. So the system is pretty darn efficient Who is this system for I think it's great for wine Enthusiasts people that are buying, you know get you get all see a lot of people buying all these nice bottles So put in their cellar and I never really end up drinking them now You can sample a little bit of those every single night Maybe your significant other doesn't drink wine, but you like wine or maybe your significant other likes whites You like reds or vice versa, or you just don't want you want to sit down You want to have a really nice glass of something special without opening the whole bottle and wasting it wine writers like myself When I have humongous amount of wines to go through and I don't want to open them all just waste them all This is great to do comparative tastings and then also taste Throughout the evening throughout the day to see how the wines change or how actually my palate changes It's also a game-changer for wine bars Restaurants that want to open up their wine by the glass program You know I don't I can't tell you how many times that I went to dinner with somebody Opened order to bottle finish the bottle and then wanted something just a little bit more extra Without having to buy a whole nother bottle or without having to buy the crappy wine by the glass now Restaurants that have Corvin bottles. It's awesome. I actually one time got a 1990 a shove red hermitage Corvin by the glass, which was an awesome experience And you know what we actually have a discount code for 10% off. I'll put that in the description box You want to get any of these accessories the Corvin system itself if you need to get refill capsules Plastic tops screw top tops or cool things like this aerator. That's right There's a little kind of decanter that can go on the Corvin system so you can aerate your wine Immediately so I'd love to know do you like Corvin? Are you using it? You have experience with it drop it in the comments below and I will see you soon Hello, thanks for watching. Hey, you made it to the end Make sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel click the bell so you know when new videos are out if you like content like this check out Our patreon page where you get some behind-the-scenes exclusive content. Thanks for watching. Cheers