Customer Reviews

The Perfect Sommelier, Chrome

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I had a friend challenge my skepticism about this product, which he had informed me of. I have a 900 bottle cellar with wines up to 25 years old, and my friend is a wine lover also(but not as prolific as a collector). Neither of us is really an "expert", but we like wine and can taste the difference between a Caberenet Franc and a Cabernet Sauvignon. I once correctly separated 1996, 97, and 98 Chiantis to prove to someone that there was a difference, and my friend spotted the Rioja ringer in a 6-wine panel of "French reds". So we're no sommeliers, but we also do not have pallets of stone. My friend bought one device, borrowed a second, and we each put a $50 bottle up as a prize, winner take all.

We tried the product on two bottles: one, a local $8 2003 Pinot Nero (aka Pinot Noir but we're in Italy), the other a $30 1999 Brunello di Montalcino. Our method was to decant half the bottle, put the other half in the device as instructed, then after one hour had neutral observers (our wives) pour two glasses per person per sample (8 total), and mark them with colored symbol labels (square, circle, star, triangle...) and mix the 4 glasses per person up. They did make sure we each got 4 different glasses. The pourers left the room to watch "Sideways" on DVD (really!) while we tasted the wine with bread and cheese.

Well, the Pinot didn't "become" Brunello (so I think you can discount the reviewer claiming Pinot became Cabernet...they probably couldn't taste the difference before, either). Furthermore, neither of us could tell any difference between the two samples. We could tell the Pinot from the Brunello, and we liked the Brunello a LOT more, but that's all. When we guessed our answers were precisely 50% wrong, just what chance would predict.

My assessment: this product is worthless. It does force you to wait for your wine to BREATHE, a mysterious process which requires only your corkscrew and an hour or two (less if you decant). This magical process can improve any red wine and some whites. I don't really know how it works, but it does. And it works with or without this silly toy.

If you pour and sip, you'll like your wine less than opening, WAITING, then pouring. Decanting is even better. Don't waste your money!

Just wondering if anyone's done a double-blind test to see if drinkers can tell the difference between the sommeliered wine and non-sommeliered wine. I have my doubts. File this with your magnetic insoles, your Q-ray bracelets and your Monster cable.

The Perfect Sommelier is aptly named, it does what the name implies...outstanding wine. Tried it on a relatively light red "La Crema" Pinot Noir.
A truly signifcant wine that I have been drinking almost exclusively for many years. I tested as the instructions called
for and could not believe the difference in a good wine. The
nose, bouquet was more apparent, wine opened with more fruit,
was smoother, less aggressive and what a finish!
Could not believe the result until I repeated this tasting a
number of times. At a home gathering I blew away several
of my colleagues who are prominent physicists and a Ph.D.in chemistry, they were all amazed at the reults that we severly dented my wine cellar with repeated tastings. It WORKS!

I was never able to tolerate bold red wines, black coffee, or citrus juices as the acid reflux would keep me up and miserable all night.

I have opened 2 identical bottles of wine. Put one on the Perfect Sommelier. Had a couple friends over for dinner and had one of them set up glasses for a blind taste test. All 9 of us that sampled the wines chose the wine that was on the Perfect Sommelier. I slept soundly that night as well, which was a FIRST after consuming alcohol of any kind.

I use it on carafes of orange juice, as well as iced coffee, which I can now drink without fearing the acid attack. The Perfect Sommelier does something to the Ph of the coffee and juice.

The wines have all been amazing. Even Two Buck Chuck becomes drinkable.

Thank You for a wonderful product. I have it stuck to my fridge when not in use on a bottle. Mom uses it to hold her pins when she quilts too!

Product is a scam. It's a magnet, the same type you place on your gas tank to increase gas mileage. Look up how to properly serve wine; those simply opening and pouring are definitely seeing a difference by opening, waiting 30 minutes (with a silly magnet on top), and pouring.

Product is similar to some "cell phone battery life extenders" that amount to a sticker and instructions on how to quickly break in a fresh cell phone battery (a few full charge/discharge cycles). Product claims that the product itself imparts a specific effect, when in reality it's the specific actions taken that produce the effect, with the product being a prop meant to distract idiots.

After opening my 1998 Napa Cabernet from BV, I placed on the magnets and low and behold it was Smoother, it was Fruitier and it was really open. I have already told several friends who have come to the site and bought for themselves and their friends.
GOT TO HAVE IT if you enjoy Wine because your wine is going to be better.

Your product continues to mystify the wine lovers of the world.
It really works and everyone I have used it with is amazed
with the results. It turned "Two Buck Chuck" into at least the
equivelent of a $20-$30 bottle of Cabernet. In a wordd WOW. Now if I could only figure out how it does it??? 'Till then I'll
keep enjoylng the results of using The Perfect Sommelier.

I purchased this for a gift based upon a review of the product in black. Admittedly, I didn't try the product - once I opened the box, the "chrome" version looked so cheap! This chrome version is made of plastic, so the chrome is just silvery plastic, not metal or stainless steel. While the product might work, the chrome version looked too cheap for me, so I returned it.