ALLVIN WINE TOOL

The rapidly growing alternative wine packaging revolution and use of screw cap closures is responded to with the introduction of a multi-use tool, the ALLVIN™.

ALLVIN™ is a handsome stainless steel professional waiters corkscrew with a unique screw cap grabbing device in the center for quick, easy and elegant opening of screw cap finished bottles. Although, screw cap closures are designed for easy opening without any tool except the hand, some consumers report difficulty in opening a new bottle, just as with many other screw cap jars and bottles. The ALLVIN™ adjusts for all standard wine bottle screw caps.

But the real purpose of ALLVIN™, reports the inventor, Australian winemaker Jude Allen: —— “is to provide for an elegant tool for sommeliers and waiters to open screw caps with a flourish at table-side equal to the traditional ceremony of pulling a cork”. Winemaker Jerry Lohr of J Lohr wines who recently introduced screw cap wines on the market commented: “Few people need a tool to open a screw cap bottle, but I can use a tool like ALLVIN™ to help sell our screw cap wines to restaurants.” As a sales aid for winery reps presenting new screw top wines to restaurants, ALLVIN™ meets the one important need to answer restaurant buyer objections to screw tops.

At Vinexpo in Chicago, many other wine marketing executives such as Martin C. Johnson, Executive Vice President, Marketing at Kendall Jackson, expressed extreme interest in ALLVIN™ as a marketing tool to help introduce new screw cap finished brands. Elliott Mackey, VP Marketing at THE WINE APPRECIATION GUILD, a leading corkscrew manufacturer and distributor mentioned: “We have had requests from dozens of wineries for an advertising specialty that bears their brand name to promote their new screw-cap wines. We even had a winery request a corkscrew without the screw, so they could give them to restaurants to dramatize that no corkscrew was necessary!”

With more than 98% of all bottled wines currently sold in restaurants being cork finished, waiters and sommeliers still need a corkscrew. ALLVIN™ meets that need as well, as it is a first class waiters corkscrew, complete with knife for cutting the foil and a boot lever for easy cork pulling. Frederique Mary, Winery Sales Manager at W.A.G., mentioned: “ALLVIN is the perfect promotional item for winery marketing programs, as it is new and unique and will gain immediate attention and comment from sommeliers and restaurateurs.”

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