Taste wine like never before with Enomatic
Have you ever wanted to taste a certain type of wine but just couldn’t take the risk of paying for an expensive bottle just to find out later that you don’t really like it?
Well, I’ve run across this very cool company called Enomatic that produces wine serving systems that allow you to dispense wine on a pay-per-serving basis.
So, for example, you walk into a wine store and are presented with these machines that let you get a taste of a various types of wine. You try a couple servings of different brands, you find one that suits your palate and you purchase a bottle. Easy!
You are probably thinking about two things now. First, wine can be very expensive and shops don’t open expensive bottles of wine just for tasting. Second, if the bottle is opened it should be consumed over the next couple of hours.
Here is the “magic” of Enomatic’s machines. They dispense servings of wine on a pay-per-serving basis using special credit cards that can be charged in the shop. Each bottle can have a different price per serving, which makes sense.
And as for maintaining the wine in good drinking condition, the Enomatic system preserves the wine by injecting nitrogen (an inert gas) into the bottle in the same volume as that removed in each serving.
I’d love to find a wine shop here in Portugal with this system set up. I bet it would be a big success, specially since we are a wine producing country.
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I like the Enomatic machine. Does anyone know what it would cost for one of these machines?
I read an article recently that priced the enomatic anywhere between $8,000 (USD) and $18,000 per machine, depending on the option. They are custom-built and have different options, such as 8-bottle refrigerated or non, 1-volume pour, 3-volume pour, etc. I believe the $8,000 option was for an 8-bottle, non-refrigerated, single-volume pour. They’re crazy expensive, but perhaps a worthwhile business investment in my opinion.
I had a similar product for a business, made by a company called “Winekeeper”, from California, winecellarinnovations.com. Mine operated the same way by replacing nitrogen as a glass was tapped. I did not have any self serve/credit card option. It cost in the mid $2000′s. They made two, four, six, eight bottle machines, or more by order. It’s a great idea, the wines could keep for weeks.
If you are in the United States, there is a company called “Napa Technology” making a similar machine, even more upgraded technologically for 50% less the cost of Enomatic. The lower cost is a result of the fact that it is locally produced and engineered more economically. I am a retailer in NYC that recently invested in these machines and I’ve already seen dramatic results in higher sales. I am so glad that a US based company is now producing these machines commercially.
I do not agree. Most of the parts of Napa Technology are made in China. If you consider the quality and all the plastic parts you realize that is more expensive than Enomatic. By the way i was informed that Enomatic has factory in USA for North America now. Have you seen the new Elite model? In my wine bar I use Enomatic and my business incresed 38%. I was considering Napa Technology too, but the prices are very competitive with Enomatic and it was more risky because their machines, even if built in USA, are Not NSF certified, same
Wineekeper.