Booklet. How often have you been at a winery tasting room nosing a glass of wine, and you think 'I know what that aroma is' but you just can't put a name to it, even though it's on the tip of your tongue..... literally. Then you start to think about all those wine books that you have sitting back at home, and how you don't have these with you when you need them the most.
What you need is something that is light, portable, discreet, and compact enough to fit into your pocket, purse, or wallet. Something that provides you with essential bite sized chunks of information about wine tasting and acts as a quick reference guide, or a useful prompt.
The Essential Wine Tasting Guide, developed as a result of experiences such as this, is the culmination of ten years of wine tasting notes and extensive research of major grape varieties and wine styles within the classic wine growing regions of the world.
Slip it out, open it up, and it unfolds to reveal 34 mini-pages of compact wine tasting information to help guide you in the analytical tasting of wine.
Features include:
- Sparkling, white, red, dessert and fortified wines
- Major and emerging international wine grape varieties & wine styles
- Over 1.000 tactile and varietal wine aroma descriptors
- Wine descriptor groups
- Wine color comparison guide
- Faults in wine
- Scoring wine
- Temperature serving guide
- Neutral white background for wine colour assessment
All this, and it's only the size of a credit card! You will quickly realise, along with many international wine professionals, that the Essential Wine Tasting Guide© is an extremely useful wine tool, that is...well, essential!  €  6,-

CD. TONY KING "The Wine Music". For two years Tony sampled individual sounds from wine bottles, wine corks, wine glasses, wine barrels, anything connected with wine.
Imagine the painstaking research; "Damn, I just opened this bottle of red for the cork sound but, bugger me, I'm going to have to drink it to save it from waste." Ah, the suffering of the artist. Seriously, this is more than just a novelty idea, this is some creative and enjoyable music. Tony must be producer of the year for one thing; the fidelity on this is beautiful, this bloke knows how to tweak. Every single little sound crisp and level, sequenced and mixed together immaculately. What's great is that the sounds neither truly leave their origins to become something alien, but are exquisitely musical enough to carry the tunes.
The music also expresses a duality between being laid back and relaxing, and involving and expressive at the same time. Just like a really good bottle of plonk.
The percussive sounds are the best, they're really rich and satisfying. There's such a wealth of ingenuity poured into this, and it's successful in it's mission to be played whilst dining and wining, or for my part relaxing after a meal with something a tad exotic in the glass. Amazingly beautiful. Meditative. Exotic textures. Crystal glasses can sing!
€  18,-

Drop-stop
This is really a wonderful little gadget for the bottle, especially if you are serving the wine at the dinner table and you don't want to risk dripping on the brand new table cloth! This wine pourer is called a DROP-STOP. You simply curl this gadget up and stick this cunning device in the neck of the bottle and it magically prevents any spoilage.
Reusable - after use simply rinse under the tap. Our wine pourer can be used for several years.   €  2,-

Professional Corkscrew
This is one of the few classical corkscrews in the wine industry. It allows cork removal in 2 steps without bending or breaking, with ease and comfort. Recommended by the Italian Organization of Sommelier.
Carries the name of the web-site    €  4,-

In this case the corkscrew got used in a train right after a wine tour!:

Confessions of a Chianti Tour Guide by Dario Castagno.
Over the past several years, "the American in Tuscany" has become a literary subgenre. Launched by the phenomenal success of Frances Mayes ´Under the Tuscan Sun´, bookstores now burgeon with nimble, witty accounts of this clash in cultures -young Americans trying to do American things in Italy and bumping against a brick wall of tradition, or the languors of la ´dolce vita´. In the end, all succumb, as they must; and vicariously, their readers succumb as well.
Before this sub-genre exhausts itself (if it ever will), it’s only fair that we hear the other side of the story: that of a native Tuscan, and of dozens of Americans who have stormed through his life and homeland, determined to find in it whatever they are looking for-whether quaintness or wisdom, submission or direction.
There is no one better to provide this view than Dario Castagno. A Tuscan guide whose client base is predominately American, Dario has spent more than a decade taking individuals and small groups (two to six persons) on customized tours through the Chianti region of Tuscany. Reared in Britain through early childhood, he speaks English fluently and is therefore capable of fully engaging his American clients and getting to know them. Too Much Tuscan Sun (whose title is a nod to Ms. Mayes) is Dario’s account of some of his more remarkable customers-from the obsessive and the oblivious to the downright lunatic.
It is also a primer on Tuscany, its charms, and its culture. Structured around a typical Tuscan year, Dario takes us through the sights, smells and sounds of Chianti during each of the twelve months including the festivities and pageantry that accord with the season (most notably, the Palio-the bareback horse race which consumes the social energies of the people of Siena for all of July and August)
Dario also intersperses an account of his own life and times-that of a transplanted British ˜lording˜ who learns to live the wilds of Chianti; of his discovery and adoption of abandoned peasant farmhouses; of his apprenticeship in the wine industry; and of his arduous transformation from bohemian layabout to thriving Tuscan guide.    €  15,-