Product Review: Wine Badge
Written By: Anonymous on Wed, Dec 10th 2008
Every so often we get to do wine, book, and product reviews at ClassicWines.com. This is important for our readers because the wine world is a big place and sometimes products come out that people don’t get to hear about, and it would be a real shame for them to miss. This is one of those occasions. The Wine Badge, by Jacogo, is a product so useful that I’m surprised it wasn’t invented before now.
When you look at a wine cellar or refrigerator is it obvious to you which bottles are which? Even for a storage unit that contains 15-20 bottles, are the identities of each bottle apparent? I would bet not. Now imagine that same problem for a 300 bottle cellar. There are very few solutions that leave your cellar or refrigerator looking organized and sophisticated. Wine Badge noticed this problem and created their solution.
Inside the Wine Badge kit are identification slips, plastic “badges”, and bottom-bottle straps. The id slips come in two different colors, allowing for immediate identification between red and white wines. On each slip is a space for producer, varietal, and vintage (or any other pertinent information you may want to add). The id slip goes into the badge, which has a piece of Velcro on the back of it. The other side of the Velcro can easily be placed anywhere on your wine bottle, but clearly the top would the most valuable location.
Just in case you have the kind of wine rack that alternates front to back, the bottom-bottle straps slip on very easily and allow badges to be fastened just like the top ones.
Using the Wine Badge was extremely easy and enjoyable. I was impressed by the quality of the product as well as the immediate usability. It seems completely unnecessary to me now to own a large collection of wine and still struggle with finding the right bottle.
I have personally been in situations where I quickly wanted to locate a wine that would be perfect for a meal or that I wanted to share with guests. Rather than sifting through my collection, I could have used Wine Badge to breeze right through the search process and skip right to enjoying the wine.
Honestly, if you’re looking for a gift to give a wine lover, I would look no further. Click here to get your own Wine Badge set.
