#Drink614: Get your robot-served wine from Tastings

Jennifer Ruisch 

What if I told you there was a place you could go where you could try as many different types of wine as you wanted, and have it served to you by fancy robots from Italy?

It’s not a classy fever dream, folks.

It’s called Tastings, and it’s a new way to experience wine in The Short North.

When you enter Tastings, these futuristic machines are the first thing you’ll notice. Huge black and brushed stainless steel behemoths of streamlined Italian design, they’re ringed with bottles of wine and small display screens. Using Nitrogen pressure and a series of tubes, the machines allow customers to dispense two-, four-, or six-ounce pours from any of the 70-plus bottles on offer, without oxidizing the wine selections.

“Oxygen is a wine’s worst enemy,” Ross Bailey, Tastings COO said. “Usually when you open a bottle, it’s a ticking time bomb. 

Read more about tastings at (614) Magazine.

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