The 8 Essential Wine Tools To Own

Stocking your bar? Which wine tools do you absolutely need to have on hand? Wine sommelier, Madeline Puckette, sums up her hit list of 8 wine tools that are essential to any bar.
List of 8 Essential Wine Tools
Wine Opener - 0:27 and 0:44 for Laguiole
Proper Wine Glass - 1:05
Decanter - 1:56
Wine Preserver - 3:18 and 3:43 for coravin
Champagne Stopper - 4:28
Glass Polishing Cloth - 5:06
A Great Book About Wine - 5:34
Wine Stain Remover - 6:27
Wine Opener: shop.winefolly...
How to Choose Wine Glasses: winefolly.com/...
My Current Favorite Wine Glass: shop.winefolly...
Picking out a decanter? Here's what you should know: winefolly.com/...
The affordable wine preserver (vacuvin): shop.winefolly...
The fancy wine preserver (coravin): amzn.to/2DGJ7Vc
My favorite Champagne stopper: shop.winefolly...
Wine glass polishing cloth: shop.winefolly...
Great books about wine! shop.winefolly...
Wine Stain remover: amzn.to/36rCUJp

[@indelebi]

The Wine Stain remover! That is some REAL advice right there

[@fredlabosch5164]

Well it's basically bleach.

[@TimHPop776]

No doubt!

[@GossomerPenguin]

Wine Folly - Magnum Edition is perfect for myself. It has softened the blow of intimidation of learning about wine, keeping it fun and easy. Really enjoying all the media you're putting out, Maddy and Jus!

[@garzapedroa]

Excelente vídeo, gracias, Saludos desde Monterrey, México

[@miguelmedina8790]

I love your book for Ever‼️👌🏽👌🏽 a beautiful piece with usefull information ❤ thank you

[@Winefolly]

Thank you so much!

[@theaveragewineenthusiast5359]

As someone who pours a fair amount of wine in my home, I recently picked up a tool I use ALL the time. It's a decanter drying stand. It totally saves the open edge of the decanter from chips and prevents water stains at the bottom of your decanter due to puddles drying there after you wash it.

[@Winefolly]

The Average Wine Enthusiast hear hear! I’ve been turning mine over a flour sack in a big mixing bowl!

[@domnuadysor]

"Negre" from Fautor, Moldova - Eastern Europe, a very nice red wine. It would be nice someday an episode to cover up some Moldavian wines :) Have a great 2020!

[@rooster78383]

Thank you for this series, Madeline. You provide excellent information and have such an appealing, warm manner. Well done.

[@ricardomartinezymas]

Nice and Funny video. Thanks.

[@MrJara1018]

It’s criminal that there isn’t more views . Great video!

[@lukasdaddy8196]

As a fellow somm and wine lover I have to say I love your videos and explanations. You are helping a lot of people learn about wine and enticing novices to get into wine. Subbed and liked, also the laguile opener would be a lot better if it had a second step. When I train new staff at the restaurant they almost always break the cork on the training bottles using it. A nice Murano wine opener works wonders for novices though. Have a lovely day.

[@Winefolly]

high five! Exactly.

[@timothyedwards5810]

Great video!

[@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017]

Love the denim jacket

[@Winefolly]

Stop the Philosophical Zombies 🙌 ty!

[@johnholzhey8149]

Not going to last more than a couple of days? Hmm. My wife and I go through a bottle in about 90 minutes.

[@radudumitrascu]

Nice to see Moldavian wine on your table!

[@suginami123]

Excellent. Makes wine fun and interesting. I decant everything. Even cheap stuff. My wine cheats are dried fruits in case the bottle is sad. Nasty dry champagne needs dried sultana. Or French fries.

[@PatrickTide1]

I used corkscrew wine opener and wine aerator from Zwilling, I am satisfied with them both 😊

[@winestofindpodcast2512]

Great information!

[@bendakstarkiller1270]

3:48 - I'd say that has use for a restaurateur or a VERY big wine-afficionado; that polishing rag you make with the types of glasses printed on it looks fantastic! PS. Best wishes from Poland! I just discovered your channel yesterday :) (it goes without saying that I subscribed...)

[@Winefolly]

thhhhhaaannnkkk youu!

[@cance7984]

Very helpful. Thank you.

[@markwilson8118]

I love watching your videos

[@ivantan5844]

I would personally add my Ah-so wine opener (I’m serious) to this list! :)

[@eikkO1]

For that wine stain Immediately pour table salt on if you cannot immediately rinse it with cold running water. If it dried it gets more difficult but you can try rubbing in with a cut lime or lemon or white (wine) vinegar

[@hawkeye0916]

New game... take a drink every time she says sucker haha

[@Winefolly]

or "Handy dandy"

[@Kevin15047]

I had to improvise a decanter for a bottle of cab sov. Big old 2qt measuring cup. 2 hours later I funneled it back into the bottle. Not elegant but it worked. Going to buy an aerator soon.

[@Winefolly]

We did that in a pinch in a restaurant with only one decanter. Double-decanting for the win! (and the wine!)

[@johnciombras5683]

Don't waste your money on the aerator.

[@Kevin15047]

@@johnciombras5683 2 years ago, dude. Way too late. And yes it broke on me. Even if it doesn't live up to the hype, it is rather good for keeping fines out of the glass, and it pours much more nicely from an aerator then from a bottle, so I'd say it's worth it for that.

[@paultorbert6929]

@Wine Folly i noticed Karen MacNeill's The Wine Bible in your bookshelf..... studying for my L1/L2, the beginning of a different path in My Journey With Wine.... i'm doing this as a passion and hobby, as i am a musician(and that requires more of my concentrated time). Thank you for your Very informational and Fun videos !!!!!!! subscribed and notifications on.

[@hectorrsalgado4005]

Great video

[@saleen12]

Love your videos. Can you do one explaining wine storage for short term and long term? I notice you have several bottles on the shelf standing up behind you, will they stay that way for a while?

[@HarrisPilton789]

I would love a recommendation for an automatic bottle opener. I have a hard time using manual corkscrews.

[@paulsaaiman8991]

I looming for one wine glass for red and white wine

[@BackWoodsBillyCraftBeerReviews]

🍇🍷🍺 The WINE TOYS are cool.. But you can shake the bottle & that aerates the wine 🍷... I have a few decanters, a Plain Glass Pitcher will do the same thing as a fancy DECANTER ! Plus it's easier to clean. Although the Swan Decanters are beautiful and Cool looking as you said they are hard to clean. As for Glasses I would not personally put a lot of money into glasses since they tend to get broken. Possibly 2 or so just for your self that are expensive. As for polishing glasses I definitely would not.. Health Risk also you can alter the taste of the wine. I use a regular cleaning agent. Then use Star-San a liquid sanitizer that you don't have to rinse off! Although I do. Have A Delmarvelous Weekend 🌴 🍇🍷 Cheers 🍻🍷🍷

[@ThRealJC2]

Coravin is the best you can get if you love wine!

[@crisyorke1328]

Just bought a 300 over dollar water goblet from Baccarat! Can't wait to use it!

[@andy.youtube.2024]

Hi Madeline , always with great tips !!! THNAKSSSS I will ask you if there is a wine tool that after opening a bottle of wine can tell you (more or less) the quality of the wine, meaning by quality if it's not vinager or corrupted in any "chemical" way. Thanks

[@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017]

I gave up on my Laguiole key. It was just badly designed, beautiful as it is.

[@Winefolly]

tis like a ferrari. Hard to drive well.

[@bermei5187]

I get my wine glasses at goodwill. 2-3 bucks per glass and you'll find great ones there sometimes

[@salisbury56]

The woman at 6:53 cleaning her pants is a different person. Note the long hair. Regardless, I love these videos, Madeline, and I love your book!! Thanks so much!

[@Winefolly]

haha! same person actually. But, now I really want to know which one you liked better?

[@severoon]

It's a very good point about making sure the lip of the wine glass is thin enough to taste the fluid. Sometimes a restaurant will give me a thick-lipped wine glass and I'm like, "Get it together, guys! I can't taste the fluid at all!"

[@jastew1971]

Hi Madeline. So if you have a wine fridge, and an open bottle that you didnt finish, do you recommend just putting it in your regular fridge upright? Im trying to find out if putting it back in the wine fridge is recommended or not.

[@Winefolly]

Yeah, I put all my open bottles in my regular fridge. Some say that it can cold shock your reds which means some of the dissolved solids might start to precipitate out of the wine. This would be like for super high end unfined / unfiltered reds. But, that will happen anyway regardless of temps, so I just let them warm up on the counter an hour or so before having a drink

[@jastew1971]

@@Winefolly Thank you that's what I thought. Cheers! 🍷

[@pauld4676]

Greatly enjoy your video! Any plan to restock the glasses and wine courses?

[@Winefolly]

The course booklets are back in stock! We ran out of glasses much sooner than we anticipated, they are shipping from Austria and arrive in January.

[@pauld4676]

Great, just order the book and course. Thanks

[@Winefordummies]

Madeline, Im 21 and from Spain and Ive been drinking/studying for 6 months, got your WineFolly magnum edition, WSET 2 and 3, etc. Ive read a fuck ton and drank a fuck ton too but I get frustrated when I dont know everything there is to know about wine. I feel like its going to take me years to learn everything, I want Master Sommelier level. Kinda wondering if the journey is very long or im just slow. I apologize for the random comment, Ive been drinking some wine (Joseph Drouhin Côte de Nuits-Villages 2013) and im just sad that I dont know everything about wine.

[@Winefolly]

Hey Rafael, wow. If you're just 21 and know as much as you do with WSET 3, let me be the next person to tell you: YOU'RE DOING GREAT! Here's the thing that I've learned about learning about wine... I too once wanted to know everything there is to know about wine. And, I studied a lot, started a wine blog and started teaching people about wine as a way to learn everything there is to know. What I've learned after all that is that wine is SUUUUPER complex because within each avenue of knowledge (science, taste, history, regions, culture, geography, etc) there is PhD-level knowledge that is continually being pushed forward. EVERY. SINGLE. YEAR. Plus, one of the biggest things that I've noticed that the level of data available is extremely sparse. (some regions don't have maps, we still don't know how many wines are made every year - one of the reasons we merged with gwdb.io) So, my only advice to you is to figure out how you can contribute to this vast amount of knowledge. We need motivated people like you who want to change the wine world for the better :) It may take a lifetime to do, but it will be fun!

[@moniqaf]

Run that microfiber towel thru that curved decanter. Just start twisting it thru

[@beatnikbanditracing3688]

Shoot, what was that stain removal stuff? And did it work? ... and that looks like Sammamish or around there

[@Winefolly]

Look in the description!!!

[@candicekatereid3522]

What was that magical spray that took the red wine out of your white pants?

[@Winefolly]

Chateau spill - love that stuff

[@evanschneider47]

those are a lot of upright bottles. is it not true that corked bottles have to be stored on their sides?

[@Winefolly]

true. I do not follow the rules. (and often pay the price)

[@vyal4297]

Can somebody tell me why would anybody need a wine preserver, like at 3:48?

[@dayvudmorin]

My wife doesn't drink wine so when I open a bottle it's just me having it. I don't always want to drive the whole bottle of wine so I use the same vacuum she showed to seal it until the next evening. On some occassions it'll take me 3 days to finish a bottle. In addition, if you open two or three bottles to share some special things with a couple of guests, you may not finish it all in one night.

[@daver8521]

Pandora the Cat broke my decanter yesterday. She is an evil cat. I don't need a wine preserver, because I buy my wine in the convenient 750ml single-serving size,

[@Winefolly]

daver8521 probably scared her!!! Sheesh. Cat problems. Definitely can relate

[@garymcsullea7330]

No wine opener needed if you have a stelvin cap bottle.

[@rsport2053]

Don't polish handmade glasses holding it on the base of the glass like @05:10

[@Winefolly]

You're obviously missing my explanation of how to do it right here! kzbin.info/www/bejne/bXLdoH-Jlq6saZo In this video I explain if you polish from the base to the bowl you can rip the bowl off the stem! But now that you know we agree, you can accept my video edit of that image at 5:10 where it APPEARS like I'm doing it wrong. If you look closer, you'll also realize that it's a dirty glass and I have no intention of polishing it!!! It's okay, I still love you because technically, you ARE RIGHT. ;) friends? k?

[@miguelmarquez4192]

@@Winefolly i have to admit, it broke my concentration and for a split second i thought "ah! those angles look zalto-ish. Its gonna snap." All that tells me is i dont need those kind of glasses if i'm worried about YOUR $59.00. Imagine how id act if they were mine! (Im such a sucker for craftmanship though, i'd probably buy the two pack and use them on nights im alone).

[@scottwatters4433]

I enjoy your content, but you might consider breaking up your video into more manageable sections for you to record instead of these longer cut up segments. Planning your cut locations ahead of time will make these far more "professional" and much easier on the viewers eyes and ears. Patched together segments are really hard to stay engaged with even when the information is solid and the presenter interesting. Just my $.02 to make your channel even better!

[@Winefolly]

True, that's a good idea. Hopefully we can spend more time and money on this endeavor in the future.

[@saiwolaw2842]

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[@mrultimatepranksters7395]

Gary vee walked so that you can run

[@Winefolly]

LOVE THE VEEEEEEE!!

[@gregoryunderwood4121]

Hmmm, your wedding ring disappeared........

[@Winefolly]

Gregory Underwood don’t worry, we’re still together! 🥰

[@SCrimson]

madeline: The aerator works like a.. me:charm? Madeline: CHAMP! me: :o

[@lolimfranco]

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