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The Bottom Line

Fascinating design features aside, this aeration device does the job. With just about every red wine we tested, the Wine Soiree made a noticeable difference in the wine's ability to open up and express itself, with more intense aromas and flavors after a pour through the Soiree.

Pros

• Allows a wine to open up and aerate without having to decant the wine
• Designed to fit cork or screw cap bottles

• Easy to clean

Cons

• The large glass chamber makes the Wine Soiree a little more fragile than other aerators.

Description

• The Wine Soiree is a wine aeration gadget that promises to help your wine open up and mellow out without a decanter.
• The Wine Soiree is priced right around $20.
• It's fairly easy to use and clean.

Guide Review - Wine Soiree

The Wine Soiree is the next generation of handy wine aerating accessories. Maximizing aeration with a "plug 'n chug" design, the Wine Soiree sends the wine through a glass, "mad scientist" like funnel feature with a quick tip of the bottle. The wine works through the funnel chamber to bubble and burp its way around more oxygen and ends up in the ever ready wine glass. The generous surface area of the glass globe encourages optimal aeration, while allowing consumers the option of aerating a single glass of wine at a time instead of decanting a full bottle.

Instead of holding the Wine Soiree hovering over the glass and pouring the wine through the aerator like many other aeration devices, the Soiree is fitted with a rubber cork-like stopper that plugs directly into the wine bottle and tilts with the bottle to simultaneously aerate and pour the wine.

In fact, there are two types of attachment stoppers, one made specifically for a cork bottle closure and the other crafted for screw caps.

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