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Uncorked Inventor: Gérard Michel, Laurent Villaume Availability: Now, $59.95 To Learn More: tasting-international.com Have you ever popped the cork on a fine Bordeaux or Chardonnay only to encounter a bitter taste and noxious aroma? About 5% of all bottled wine is tainted by a molecule in some corks known as trichloroanisole (TCA). Now a French company has devised a way to extract the TCA and restore the wine's bouquet. Pour the wine into the Dream Taste glass pitcher and insert a bunch of white plastic grapes, included in the kit. The faux fruit acts as a filter...
...Keep Your Red Wine Good to the Last Drop If you aren't going to finish that bottle, here are some ways to keep it fresh. Simply popping the cork back in and refrigerating will work for one day. For up to three days, try VACUVIN ($15), which uses a stopper and a small plastic hand pump to create a partial vacuum inside the bottle. RESERVE ($190) introduces a layer of inert gas over the wine, keeping air out and wine drinkable for six days. The PEK WINE STEWARD ($219), right, uses inert gas and temperature control to keep wine...
...aren't going to finish that bottle, here are some ways to keep it fresh. Simply popping the cork back in and refrigerating will work for one day. For up to three days, try VACU VIN ($15), which uses a stopper and a small plastic hand pump to create a partial vacuum inside the bottle. RESERVE ($190) introduces a layer of inert gas over the wine, keeping air out and wine drinkable for six days. The PEK WINE STEWARD ($219), right, uses inert gas and temperature control to keep wine full of flavor for up to two weeks...
...stereotype of the obsessive sportsman, let alone the boneheaded fast bowler. Raised on a sheep and wheat farm, a straight-A student through school in Narromine, in northwestern New South Wales, McGrath was set to become a carpenter until his talent for propelling a 5.5-ounce lump of cork, string and leather carried him to Sydney and beyond. As a cricketing tourist, he's shown an uncommon appreciation for the peculiar attractions of foreign lands; to his wife, Jane, he's the rock that's stood by her through her battle with breast cancer...
...BedZED - and the global conservation organization wwf are working with a developer to create a "one-planet living" ecotourism project south of Lisbon. Using 100% renewable energy and creating a transport network designed to virtually eliminate private cars, the Mata de Sesimbra development will combine a 4,800-hectare cork-forest restoration project with a 500-hectare tourism development. Based on their experiences with BedZED, BioRegional and wwf will be incorporating similar innovative ecological elements into the Portuguese project. They don't plan to stop at Europe's borders, however. Next stop: energy-hungry China...