Really BA? [wine dispensers in IAD lounge]
Aug 15, 2018, 12:30 am
#16
Join Date: Jun 2018
Location: Scotland
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I'm no wine connoisseur so I'd be happy to see the above in my local lounge. A bottle doesn't last long and I don't like having half a glass of an old bottle and the other half from a new bottle (once I've chased an attendant to actually change the bottle), and then there's the drips from the bottle whilst pouring as its been sitting in an ice/water bucket...
Bring on the dispensers
Bring on the dispensers
Aug 15, 2018, 1:24 am
#18
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: London
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I was totally naive. From the title I was imagining them being like Vagabond!
https://www.bytheglass.eu/portfolio/london/
https://www.bytheglass.eu/portfolio/london/
Aug 15, 2018, 1:58 am
#19
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I was briefly tempted to get one for home ... there's space in the dining room
Aug 15, 2018, 2:00 am
#20
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: UK
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Aug 15, 2018, 2:16 am
#22
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Aug 15, 2018, 2:21 am
#24
Join Date: Jul 2018
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Very true. I always find small local rugby clubs (i.e. of the village / small-town sized variety) serve the best draught Guinness. By the looks of it they'll empty a fresh barrel of an evening. Fizzy Guinness in a bottle is - IMO - simply disgusting.
Aug 15, 2018, 3:01 am
#25
Join Date: May 2014
Location: Kent, UK
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Presumably a small remote cooler, it only needs to get down to about 10C I presume, so not quite as cold as beer would need to be, allowing for a smaller size.
These are the same Key Kegs used by the best craft breweries, so the keg itself will be decent quality, though I must admit kegged wine is a bit of a novelty to me as well!
These are the same Key Kegs used by the best craft breweries, so the keg itself will be decent quality, though I must admit kegged wine is a bit of a novelty to me as well!
Aug 15, 2018, 4:39 am
#26
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Bottled ... I tried it in SIN in the late 60s, bottled in KL of all places. It was AWFUL!!
Aug 15, 2018, 4:50 am
#27
Join Date: Aug 2015
Posts: 159
I'm no wine connoisseur so I'd be happy to see the above in my local lounge. A bottle doesn't last long and I don't like having half a glass of an old bottle and the other half from a new bottle (once I've chased an attendant to actually change the bottle), and then there's the drips from the bottle whilst pouring as its been sitting in an ice/water bucket...
Bring on the dispensers
Bring on the dispensers
Moreover, look at it this way... between the bar, the half-decent food in the restaurant, and the consistently excellent staff, IAD is a great lounge overall. If more of BA's outstation lounges (and even GC/GF...) were like IAD, that would be no bad thing at all!
Aug 15, 2018, 5:22 am
#28
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: UK
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Many years ago, a large UK Corporate had the technology to fill plastic bags of a variety of sizes with wine. There were lots of options about how to sell/display/dispense the wine. It reduced "corkage" to zero. The wine tasted the same from the plastic bag as it did from a bottle. (Blind tasting).
Unsurprisingly, given the snobbishness about wine, the project never took off.
I used to be held captive by wine snobbishness. No longer. I have been liberated from my captivity.
I now drink Kiwi Sauv. Blanc, brought over to the UK in giant vats and bottled here. With screw caps.
(Unless someone offers me Puligny Montrachet or Lynch Bages/its equivalent - as BA used to)
Unsurprisingly, given the snobbishness about wine, the project never took off.
I used to be held captive by wine snobbishness. No longer. I have been liberated from my captivity.
I now drink Kiwi Sauv. Blanc, brought over to the UK in giant vats and bottled here. With screw caps.
(Unless someone offers me Puligny Montrachet or Lynch Bages/its equivalent - as BA used to)
Aug 15, 2018, 5:31 am
#29
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Many years ago, a large UK Corporate had the technology to fill plastic bags of a variety of sizes with wine. There were lots of options about how to sell/display/dispense the wine. It reduced "corkage" to zero. The wine tasted the same from the plastic bag as it did from a bottle. (Blind tasting).
Unsurprisingly, given the snobbishness about wine, the project never took off.
I used to be held captive by wine snobbishness. No longer. I have been liberated from my captivity.
I now drink Kiwi Sauv. Blanc, brought over to the UK in giant vats and bottled here. With screw caps.
(Unless someone offers me Puligny Montrachet or Lynch Bages/its equivalent - as BA used to)
Unsurprisingly, given the snobbishness about wine, the project never took off.
I used to be held captive by wine snobbishness. No longer. I have been liberated from my captivity.
I now drink Kiwi Sauv. Blanc, brought over to the UK in giant vats and bottled here. With screw caps.
(Unless someone offers me Puligny Montrachet or Lynch Bages/its equivalent - as BA used to)