Purple Rain In Your Glass: Unique decanter by Matilda Sundén Ringnér
Swedish designer Matilda Sundén Ringnér has made pouring wine for yourself and guests a lot more interesting and certainly a lot more fun. Titled, ‘Rainman,’ this device’s main purpose was intended to be a wine decanter (which you could also use to water plants with, as you’ll notice on the designer’s website), but with the unique holes which pour the wine, it becomes clear that even the pouring would be beneficial to helping aerate the wine.
According to Matilda’s website, the decanter “plays with the traditional way of transporting water/wine from container to drinking glass.” While that is certainly true, I also admire how it provides you with a more controlled pour when pouring your wine. No more, “Whoops! I just gave you a third of the bottle on accident!” Or the famous ‘dribble-all over-the-place’ pour we’ve all encountered at one time or another.
The decanter RainMan will be exhibited in collaboration with Skruf Glasswork at the Formex Fair 2008. For more information on the Formex Fair, please visit their website.
November 21st, 2008 at 1:46 pm
[...] A more clever blogger than I called it “purple rain.” • [...]
November 22nd, 2008 at 2:22 pm
Wow, I love that! Not only does it look cool, it helps with aerating the wine?? Double Wow!