Preferred Wine Cellars
Sign Up for the Recipe Publishing Newsletter
Fun Wine Accessories - Gifts for Wine Enthusiasts
These days there are hundreds of different wine accessories to choose from, including corkscrews, wine racks, wine aerators, wine flasks and much more. Whether you are looking for gifts for wine enthusiasts or you want to treat yourself to some modern wine accessories, there are plenty of new ones on the market.
Wine Flasks
One great gift idea for somebody who enjoys wine and physical activity is a food-grade stainless steel flask. If you fancy sipping your wine after paddling to a small island, riding your bike through the city or climbing a mountain, you will need one of these.
A specially designed wine flask holds the contents of a standard size bottle of wine and it is made from food grade stainless steel. The stainless steel is free of toxins so it is not coated with an epoxy or plastic lining, unlike aluminum bottles. Stainless steel does not add flavor to your food or wine, which is why it is often used in professional kitchens and also in winemaking.
Your flask will keep the wine tasting clean and crisp. This handy piece of kit has a wide mouth, making it simple to fill or empty. It is also easy to clean; you just have to rinse it with soapy water and scrub it briefly. You can get a good one for around twenty dollars.
Wine Aerators
This ingenious gadget enhances the finish, flavor, and bouquet of any wine. The design speeds up the breathing process by aerating the wine instantly as you pour it.
Wine aerators are made of acrylic and they come with a no-drip stand and travel pouch. Wine aerators are about two inches wide and six inches high and you can put them in the dishwasher.
Wine Finers
Have you heard of wine finers? These wine accessories are made from rubber and stainless steel so you need to wash them by hand. With a wine finer you can decant a bottle of red wine in half a minute. This gadget filters out all the tartar, sediment and pieces of cork as you pour the wine. You can also use it as a wine stopper if you have wine left over.
They come with pointed or flat tops and are very handy if you have wine with a lot of sediment in, since you can pour the wine and drink it rather than pouring it and having to wait until the sediment has all sunk.
Wine Chilling Carafes
A wine chilling carafe is an indulgence more than a necessity because most of us these days own refrigerators! However, if you do not want to have to keep running to and from the refrigerator trying to get your wine cool enough or bother with a dripping ice bucket, you might be interested in a wine chilling carafe. A lead-free crystal carafe will hold twenty-six ounces of wine and keep it perfectly chilled.
The carafe has an "ice sleeve" down the center so imagine a regular wine carafe with what looks like a large test-tube filled with ice in the middle. This is an ingenious idea and it is more stylish than a bottle of wine with a tubular sleeve wrapped around it.
