Coffee and Wine Gadgets

With the holidays right around the corner it’s time to start thinking about entertaining guests in your home. Here are some new coffee and wine gadgets to help make you the perfect host.

Jura-Capresso S9
With the holidays coming up you’re entertaining a lot more people-- that means it pays to get hi-tech products that enhance your abilities as a host. Jura-Capresso makes the number one coffee makers on the planet. They’re absolutely fantastic and the Jura-Capresso S9 is their latest super-automatic. It takes whole beans and it converts it into the most delicious coffee you’ve ever tasted outside of a café in Italy. It has a built-in high tech burr grinder to grind and brew the perfect cup of coffee. If you want the best coffee maker on the market the Jura-Capresso S9 is definitely for you. $2199. www.capresso.com

Metrokane Corkscrews
If you’re in the market for a corkscrew our favorite of the bunch is the Rabbit by Metrokane. We’ve had a Rabbit for a couple of years now and it is hands down the best corkscrew we’ve ever tested. Great lever actuated corkscrew at $70 -- its about half the price of competing corkscrews and like the brand new Metrokane Wing Machine, the worm or corkscrew point is now Teflon coated because a lot of wineries are using plastic corks which are a lot tougher to pull out. With the Teflon worm, it’s much easier to do with the new Wing Machine or the Silver Rabbit. www.metrokane.com

Metrokane Vacuum Pump
If you’re a red wine drinker, Metrokane has a new great gadget they call the vacuum pump. As you well know, once you take the cork out of a bottle of red wine it goes bad in just one day. That’s why a vacuum pump is essential if you open a lot of bottles of red wine. Just stick it in the half empty bottle, pump it several times, and now you’ve got a vacuum sealed bottle that’s just as tightly sealed as if the cork had not been taken out in the first place. A bottle sealed with a vacuum pump can last up to a week and taste just like the day you opened it. $30. www.metrokane.com

OXO Barware Caddy
And finally, one of our favorite companies OXO has a new line of barware that’s set to enhance anybody’s kitchen for the holidays…like tongs in their built in holder on the side of the ice bucket, to a $40 barware caddy and all the tools have the famous OXO rubber good grip handle. www.oxo.com