How to drink wine without opening the bottle

Because who wants to pop a cork when you can use science?

Finally, there's a way to get wine out of the bottle without dealing with all that fussy Cork-popping busyness.

Greg Lambert, who usually makes medical devices, wanted to keep popping the wine during the week after his wife became pregnant. But he didn't want to pound back the whole bottle, worrying about it going off.

Enter the "Coravin", which lets you pour wine without opening the bottle and letting air in.

It's actually quite ingenious: a needle sinks its way through the Cork, into the alcoholic goodness, and then you tap a button to pump gas into the bottle, since you need something to replace the space left by the wine (otherwise you'd have a vacuum).

That gas is argon - a nifty little inert gas that doesn't react with the chemicals in the wine, so it doesn't cause it to go off.

Then, you can turn the bottle upside down. Cool, huh?

Now, the bad news: this baby will set you back $299 (€225) and the capsules of pressurised argon gas go for $10.95 each, and last for 15 glasses - that's €0.73 a use.

So not Aldi's finest then.