Enomatic operation question
Hi all,
I am building a do-it-yourself Enomatic-like machine for my home use. It will basically preserve one bottle and dispense in the same way, minus the debit card, of course! My question is on the preservation of the wine: does anyone know if the Enomatic machines add inert gas just once to a new bottle, or continually somehow?
For my initial design, I will probably just add inert gas manually, but I eventually want it to be automatic as well. Any ideas of how often I need to add gas considering the bottle will be sealed otherwise?
I am building a do-it-yourself Enomatic-like machine for my home use. It will basically preserve one bottle and dispense in the same way, minus the debit card, of course! My question is on the preservation of the wine: does anyone know if the Enomatic machines add inert gas just once to a new bottle, or continually somehow?
For my initial design, I will probably just add inert gas manually, but I eventually want it to be automatic as well. Any ideas of how often I need to add gas considering the bottle will be sealed otherwise?
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Permalink Reply by Israel Zenteno on -
Enomatic Machines keep a constant pressure of inert gas inside the bottle, its this pressure that actually dispenses the wine. Once you place the tubbing inside the bottle and rise the bottle into the seal on top, then gas in injected into the bottle, since its sealed on the top, the gas can not escape. Once you make your selection and press the dispensing button, a valve opens letting the wine flow to the dispensing pipet. Then, it dispenses the exact amount of wine, closes the valve, sealing the wine once again, and expels any residual wine in the pipet by injecting the same gas through the pipet.
not an easy task to do manually. I would recommend getting the wine keeper and adapt it to anything you like... this is how a lot of restaurants do it, just adapt the wine keeper to your existing cabinet.
Also, I really don't think there is ANY wine keeper that would keep the wine in optimum condition for more that a couple of days. Keep that in mind. Even in an enomatic, using nitrogen or argon, a trained nose will detect a difference in as little as one day.
Hope you are successful in your home made enomatic!!!!
Z.
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