Coravin Pivot: The New Affordable Wine Preservation Tool (I LOVE it!)

In a nut shell, it is a wine preservation system which helps you keep your wine for longer. In fact by using the Coravin Pivot, it can extend the life of your wine for up to 4 weeks. What the device does, is it adds a blanket of argon gas over the wine to protect it from oxygen (which kills the wine).

Yes! It’s completely safe. In tech speak, it’s ‘nontoxic and largely inert’. This is food-grade argon gas which is used when the wine is made. Yep, that’s right, winemakers add argon gas at the end of the bottling process to prevent oxidation and preserve the wuality of the wine.

Up to 4 weeks. Yay! Goodbye through the other half of the bottle down the sink because you don’t want to drink it all in one go.

Super easy! You literally read through the Quick Start Guide as shown in the picture below and once you’ve read it, you’ll be pouring your first glass. The instructions are super easy to follow and consume.

Basically you take the screw cap off or cork out of the bottle, replace with the Pivot Stopper. You then insert the Pivot device, tip the bottle and press the button on the back of the Pivot device to disburse the wine. Once poured you then, close the stopped and store the bottle somewhere cool, standing upright. Ta da!

Yes! The special Pivot Stoppers are the perfect fit for any still wine bottle. It will provide an airtight seal to keep the freshness (and argon gas) in.

It’s the perfect device to use if you don’t want to consume an entire bottle and want to keep the remainder of the bottle fresh for a later date. Perhaps you want to match different wines to different courses for an at home degustation menu, perhaps you want to sample a wine to work out what might be a good food match with various dishes, maybe you’re a wine blogger like myself and you want to write your notes and then later consume the rest of the bottle. So many reasons.

The Coravin Pivot is $185 and the Pivot+ is $230. The Pivot+ comes with the Pivot Aerator attachment, which you can see pictured below.

I am hoping the attachment will be sold separately so I can buy it for my Pivot.

It most certainly does! I have the grey one, as you’ll see in my videos and pictures however it also comes in black, teal and coral. Check out the different coloured Pivot’s here.

However please note, the Pivot+ only comes in black.

The Coravin Pivot device obviously. However you also receive 2 Pivot Stoppers and 1 Coravin Capsule. Scroll to the bottom of this post to see a quick (I am talking 20 seconds!) unboxing video.