Re: Alternative Technique To Topping Off Wine - Crazy Product Idea!?!

Not irrational at all - but not completely original (you might want to think
twice before spending the $ to patent anything!)

Plastic is less than the ideal material. glass is more dense, and cleaner.
Many on this forum and elsehwere have suggested, and use, sanitized glass
marbles to do just what you are proposing.

A thought for you; come up with a cheap reliable source of glass marbles in
varying sizes. Develop a way of putting them into glass carboys without
risking cracking the carboy. Market the glass marbles, in a variety of
sizes, in bagged lots, through the home winemaking stores.

If it works, you can pay me off with a bottle of Ornellaia!



Hello everyone. I need your opinions on a crazy idea I had for a
product recently. This is so simple, it's either a dumb idea or a good
solution to an age-old problem so here goes...

What do you guys (and gals) think about using small submersible
plastic balls instead of wine or juice to keep your wine levels up
during closed-container primary and secondary fermentation? As the
wine evaporates, just throw in a few balls instead of adding wine to
top off? Of course the balls would be fabricated from food-grade
plastic (same stuff that clear disposable water bottles are made of).
I always end up wasting wine when topping off since there's always
some left in the smaller bottle. It's also a messier operation than
just adding the balls.

In my potentially irrational state of mind, I've gone ahead and
submitted a preliminary patent application to protect the intellectual
property although I'm pretty sure this idea is so obvious it will not
be patentable. Please let me know if you guys think this idea is worth
productizing and if so, what's a desirable quantity to sell from an
end-user perspective (i.e. 1/2 gallon bag?) and what is the product
worth to the consumer ($)?

Thanks in advance for your opinions.

Regards,
Charles Erwin


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