Five bars across Australia will offer every wine on their list by the glass during May, giving guests the opportunity to explore exceptional drops without committing to a full bottle.
The experience is part of the Coravin World Wine Tour, which returns in a new format with an expanded footprint across five states, including two first-time stops.
Using Coravin’s by-the-glass tools, the tour allows wine lovers to discover rare and diverse wines that are usually only accessible by the bottle. Coravin’s wine-by-the-glass systems, designed for use with wines under cork, screw cap, and even sparkling wines, use precision-engineered needle technology, and inert gas to allow a glass to be poured while the bottle stays fresh.
This year’s Coravin World Wine Tour encompasses Sydney, Melbourne, and Adelaide, with Perth and Noosa joining the line-up for the first time.
Participating venues include five of Australia’s coolest wine bars – Love, Tilly Devine (Sydney), Clover (Melbourne), Jennie Wine Bar (Adelaide), Atelier Wine Bar (Noosa), and Shadow Wine Bar (Perth).
In Sydney, the Coravin World Wine Tour will grace the iconic laneway bar Love, Tilly Devine, with 150 bottles to choose from.
Beverage Manager James Griffin said: “At Love, Tilly Devine, we’ve always showcased winemakers who are taking risks and doing things a little differently, and we love championing producers using skin-contact and low intervention in their winemaking.
“While we do offer a succinct list of wines by the glass, excitingly our partnership with Coravin means that guests can try a glass of any of the 150 pioneering bottles we offer.
“It’s really going to, quite literally, open up the possibilities for our guests to try something new, and allow our team to open more and more of their favourite wines; some a little unusual, and all delicious. A few to look out for are the incredible skin contact wines of Staffelter Hof (the world’s oldest working winery at nearly 1200 years old), Patrick Sullivan’s superb Victorian single-vineyard chardonnays, and the irresistible Poppelvej wines of Uffe Deichmann, McLaren Vale’s best lo-fi Danish winemaker, plus low-intervention and skin contact wines from all over Australia and the rest of the world.”
Coravin founder Greg Lambrecht said: “We are delighted that the Australian Coravin World Wine Tour will enable venues to present all their wines by the glass throughout the month of May. This creates a fantastic experience for guests to explore different wines.
“A new generation of wine drinkers are increasingly curious, adventurous, and willing to experiment with new varieties and styles. Offering more wines by the glass allows drinkers to find their new favourite variety, region, or style, without taking the risk of buying a whole bottle. We are delighted to be working with five iconic Australian wine destinations to bring
our World Wine Tour to five states, giving Australian wine lovers an unparalleled level of choice for wine by-the-glass.”
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