Enomatic wine dispensing systems I have been looking at a rather expensive piece of equipment for use in a retail wine tasting environment. "Enomatic" is Italian in origin, and is just recently being installed in wine bars and restaurants in the US. The unit instantly replaces dispensed wine with either nitrogen or argon gas, via air-tight tubes in the bottles. The company makes room temp, refrigerated and climate controlled models. They claim validated testing to support zero degradation of wine quality for 24 days with their system. This is certainly a way to provide measured tastings of expensive wines in a low traffic business, but the cost of the equipment is considerable. I'm wondering a couple of things, at least: First, does anyone here have any factual info on whether this thing really works as claimed; and second, how do buyers of expensive (US$50+++) wine react to the idea. One perspective is that high-end buyers might think this is a great way to taste before buying, but another view could be that the same buyer trusts the winery, vintage, etc. and has already done enough tasting to buy without the 'insurance' of a taste. The buyer isn't buying the bottle he's tasting from anyway. What do you think? 
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