Has anyone ever heard of this gadget - Wine Cellar Express? If you have used it, I'd like to hear your comments. It claims to age your wine several years in 15 - 30 minutes.
To me it sounds too good to be true but on the other hand if it works, it would be the answer to trying to let my wine sit long enough to properly age. I usually only have a few bottles left when they get good. I've been trying to make lots to get ahead of the game but I only seem to be drinking and giving away more! (Hehe)
Apparently, if you know the wine has sat on a Wine Coaster Express before you taste it, you'll think it tastes better. If you do a 'double blind' tasting experiment, however, you can't tell the difference.
In other words, it works if you think it works. I believe the official term is "placebo". Or maybe "snake oil".
wd41
To answer my own question I found this info. Any thoughts?
This is the company website:
I checked out a few of those quoted in their testimonials and they seem to be bonafide wine tasters & columnists.
Any thoughts?
Frances
Mind you, I've never seen one of these devices but it doesn't sound logical to me. If I were able to put the same amount of iron filings in the same amount of liquid and if these filings had the same viscosity as tannins I doubt seriously if I could pull any significant amount of them out in 30 minutes with a magnetic coaster, and they are easily attracted. Sounds like "snake oil" to me too.
Its like the magnets that you put on your fuel lines "to align the molecules",pure unadultrated BS
This Wine Cellar Express 'wine aging coaster' is a great example of the power of suggestion effect on the mind. I agree with Washu. Tannins soften by polymerization. The magnetic field of this device soften tannins in 30 minutes?... I doubt any statistically significant basis.
Gene
P.S. I'll sell y'all a perpetual moti> Mind you, I've never seen one of these devices but it doesn't sound
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