the first night !!

"Stan the man" with the very first Max Bordeaux/Wine Gallery credit card.

To explain how it works - these are pay-as-you-go cards that you can credit with as much or as little money as you like. Once loaded up, you chose from the 48 wines on offer, insert the card, chose the size of glass, and off you go on your wonderful journey through Bordeaux's most famous chateaux without leaving the comfort of the city centre.


People really got into last night - some even charged their cards up three times, which is hardly surprising when you consider the list of 48 wines available.

Note the three different tasting glass sizes.

We have six Enomatic machines at the Wine Gallery. These machines have rapidly become the "must have" in top wine bars around the world.

So how do these machines actually work ? In a nutshell,

they are pretty much like the big stainless steel tanks used in wineries. When

you remove wine from the bottle, the space is filled

with an inert gas, which prevents the rest of the bottle from oxidising. Incredibly simple, but a revolution in wine tasting as they allow a far greater number of wines to be tasted by the glass without loss or deterioration of precious wine.

For more details on how it works, click on http://www.enomatic.it/website/default.asp?catIDPadre=37&catID=38



This is the amzingly cool work of art installed high above the Wine Gallery by Bun Than Huynh.

There are over 600 glasses hanging from the ceiling. It may look like beautifully random raindrops, but the position of each glass is actually calculated to the most minute detail to correspond to an algorhythmic pattern.