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A Very Expensive Wine Gadget
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>The Holiday season usually brings some new wine gadgets, and this year
>is no exception. One offered by Frontgate caught my eye because of the
>expense. For only US $7999.00, you may have an eSommelier Wine
>Inventory System. This is a small desktop special purpose computer with
>attached bar code label maker. It uses a global wine database. It
>allows many kinds of searches, etc. For that price you could buy
>several normal computers and many versions of wine software.
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>Of course if you buy this gadget, any SWMBO around is likely to have
>you hauled away by the people in white coats, or demand a gift of equal
>value for herself. Again Frontgate can solve this problem. They have a
>Jewelry Armoire Safe that is crafted in Italy by the Osvaldo Agresti
>studio. It is covered in rare woods, is 58 inches high and weighs 150
>pounds. It costs $7499.00 plus $250 for home delivery. Since this huge
>safe would look so empty, you likely would have to stop by Cartier to
>get a jewel or two to put in it. That might pacify SWMBO.
Actually, if I were to build a new home and cellar, I'd think about a bar code
scanner (with printer and my database, etc.) to keep track of it all. I think
I could do it for far less than US$8k, but then I would not have THEIR
database. Now, I usually handwrite the little neck-hangers, then stack the
ones from the bottles, that I remove, for later deletion from the computer.
One think that I definitely WOULD do is have a CAT-6 Gigabit LAN connection in
the cellar, so I could just go in there with the laptop and hook into the
database, as those paper neck-hangers get blown all around, when the breeze
hits the pool patio.
Hunt
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