Best Inventions 2005: Tasteful Ideas

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NICHOLAS EVELEIGH FOR TIME

Uncorked
Inventor: G&eactue;rard Michel, Laurent Villaume
Availability: Now, $59.95
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Have you ever popped the cork on a fine Bordeaux or Chardonnay only to encounter a bitter taste and noxious aroma? About 5% of all bottled wine is tainted by a molecule in some corks known as trichloroanisole (TCA). Now a French company has devised a way to extract the TCA and restore the wine's bouquet. Pour the wine into the Dream Taste glass pitcher and insert a bunch of white plastic grapes, included in the kit. The faux fruit acts as a filter, absorbing the TCA in about an hour. Then pour a fresh glass, sit back and enjoy.
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