12 Infografías sobre el vino y la salud

¿Qué sistemas y órganos beneficia el vino? Diseños gráficos ilustrativos, entretenidos y didácticos, donde nos descubren las razones para tomar vino y sus calorías. Beneficios obtenidos con un consumo responsable, que nos mostrará el potencial de una copa de vino. 

Puedes ver los imágenes a mayor resolución haciendo click en cada una de las fuentes.

1. Seis Razones para tomar vino6-razones-para-tomar-vino

2. Tabla de calorías del vino

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Fuente: Verema

3. Una copa de vino

1-copa-de-vinoFuente: CocinayVino

4. Los pros y contras del vino

5. ¿Por qué vino sí y alcohol no para reducir el colesterol?

vino-si-alcohol-noFuente: Innatia

6. Beneficios del vino tinto

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Fuente: Valduero

7. Cuadro calórico de los vinos

cuadro-calorico-de-los-vinosFuente: Dani Cattaneo

8. Un vaso de vino al día

a-glass-of-wineFuente: Pellerini

9. Alimentos saludables – Vino Tinto vs. Vino Blanco

prevention
Fuente: Care2

10. Vino salud, Pros & Cons

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Fuente: Winerist

11. Los beneficios de beber vino

health benefits
Fuente: Stylishwalks

12. Más beneficios del vino tinto

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EEUU, consumidor de vino difícil de seducir

Muy interesante este texto que publica El Nuevo Herald, diario de Miami, y que resume en dos palabras lo que quiere el consumidor americano: "calidad asequible". Además, ofrece algunas claves para exportadores de esta bebida.

10 Infografías sobre la Cata del Vino

Conoce las distintas etapas de la cata del vino. Es una experiencia singular para experimentar y disfrutar con los sentidos.

A través de estas 10 infografías y de una forma ingeniosa y entretenida, os mostramos las distintas etapas de la cata del vino.
Puedes ver los imágenes a mayor resolución haciendo click en cada una de las fuentes.

1. Cómo catar un vino, paso a paso

2. Ceremonia de la Cata de Vinos

3. Los tres pasos básicos para catar un vino

tres-pasos-cataFuente: Vinos del Centro 

4. Cómo catar un vino como un profesional

5. Cómo catar un vino

taste-wineFuente: Meaghan Nolan

6. Cómo catar un vino como un experto

7. Una cuestión de gusto

8. Cata de vino profesional

professional-wine-tastingFuente: ShutterStock

9. Cómo catar un vino

taste-wine-dosFuente: Marche Breaks

10. Cómo catar un vino

A Brief History Of The Wine Corkscrew

 


A Brief History Of The Corkscrew
The corkscrew, like so many other inventions, was borne out of necessity. For as long as we have sold wine in glass bottles sealed with cork stoppers, consumers have struggled to easily remove those corks. As soon as the earliest glass bottles arrived in late seventeenth-century England, inventors began dreaming up instruments to ease the removal of corks.
The earliest reference to a corkscrew was noted in the 1680s. These crude instruments — “steel worms” — were variations on musket barrel cleaning tools (gun worms) manufactured by gunsmiths. Over the next 300 years inventors would file hundreds of patents, relentlessly improving upon these first adapted corkscrews. Here’s a brief history of the most important advances.

The First Patented Corkscrew

Reverend Samuel Henshall received the world’s first patent for a corkscrew in 1795. Henshall, a religious official in Oxford, England, collaborated with Mathew Boulton, a prominent manufacturer in Birmingham, to bring his corkscrew to the market. Henshall’s key improvement on the wooden-handled steel worm was the insertion of a concave disk between the handle and the worm. The disk served two purposes: it prevents its user from screwing too deep into the cork and it forces the cork itself to turn once that limit is reached, breaking any seal between the cork and the glass neck.
Henshall’s corkscrew was so effective that it was used widely for over 100 years. Cork enthusiasts – helixophiles — claim that while Henshall may have patented the design, he likely was not its inventor, as similar models were made by others decades earlier.
Samuel Hanshell's 1795 Patent For A Corkscrew
Samuel Hanshell’s Patent For A Corkscrew via The Quarterly Worme – Granted 1795

Inventing The Single Direction Twist

The next key innovation in corkscrew design can be traced to another Englishman, Edward Thompson. Thompson, in an 1802 patent, documented a way to allow a user to turn the corkscrew in a single direction by employing nested screws, which turn in opposite directions. When one screw reached its limit, a second screw engaged, allowing the cork to begin its move upward. This design element made its way into many other corkscrew designs, including the famous “Zig-Zag” corkscrew.

The Waiter’s Friend

In 1882, German inventor Carl F.A. Wienke, filed a patent on the “Waiter’s Friend,” also known as a “Butler’s Friend” and a “Wine Key.” This slim, foldable corkscrew (in a shape similar to a pocket knife — earning it yet another name, the “Sommelier’s Knife”) employs a screw and a single lever. The Waiter’s Friend’s handle uses the side of the wine bottle for leverage, easing the upward pull of the cork. While this design has seen many improvements — the double hinged levers of the “Pull-Tap” prominent among them — its basic form has proved its worth, as the myriad variations remain extremely popular both with restaurant and bar professionals and home wine drinkers alike.
The U.S. Patent Filing For Carl FA Wienke's Lever Corkscrew - 1883
The U.S. Patent Filing For Carl FA Wienke’s Lever Corkscrew – Granted 1883

The Wing

The double-lever, rack-and-pinion “Wing” corkscrew has its origins in H.S. Heely’s 1888 British patent on a corkscrew he called the A1 Heeley Double Lever. A version of this corkscrew reached the United States in 1930. Patented to Italian designer Dominick Rosati, the design remains quite popular. As you twist the screw into the cork, a pair of levers rise on each side of the bottle’s neck. When you push the levers down the cork rises. When crafted out of heavier, thicker metal it can be easy to use and quite effective. Cheap, flimsier versions can be frustrating to use, as the leverage the corkscrew should provide just isn’t there.
The U.S. Patent Filing For Dominick Rosati's Wing Corkscrew - 1930
The U.S. Patent Filing For Dominick Rosati’s Wing Corkscrew – Granted 1930

Modern Innovations

1979 saw the introduction of the “Screwpull” corkscrew, designed and patented by Herbert Allen, an oil and aerospace industry engineer who fell in love with wine while traveling through Europe in the 1950s. Allen used polycarbonate plastic and advanced metals to produce a corkscrew so elegant it found its way into The Museum of Modern Art’s permanent collection. The slim device wraps around the top of the bottle. To use it you simply turn the plastic screw.
Herbert Allen's Screwpull Corkscrew  - 1978
Herbert Allen’s Screwpull Corkscrew – Granted 1981

Herbert Allen earned another patent for a single side lever corkscrew, which employed a down–up–down series of strokes to dive into the cork, pull it out, and then slip off the screw. The “Rabbit” made this type of corkscrew famous among American consumers, as an extremely easy-to-use, if pricey way to reliably remove corks.
Allen's Self Pulling Corkscrew Patent And The Rabbit Patent For A Similar Device, Two Decades Later
Allen’s Self Pulling Corkscrew Patent And The Rabbit Patent For A Similar Device, Two Decades Later
What does the future hold? Perhaps one day the idea of removing corks will seem alien to us, at least for expensive bottles we’d like to drink in more than one sitting. The Coravin uses a syringe and inert gas to allow wine to be removed from a bottle without ever extracting the cork, or allowing oxygen to enter. For now the Coravin is only popular among wine bars with pricey “by-the-glass” programs and wine enthusiasts who own expensive bottles, which they don’t intend to drink in a single session or over a couple of days.
An Early Patent For The Coravin - 2004
An Early Patent For The Coravin – Granted 2010