Wine Diaper's Daily Whine

The Wine Diaper on Woot!

2010-04-23T00:00:00.000-04:00

We're getting a major feature this weekend on Woot.com! The Wine Diaper will be sold for a super low price for 3 days only: Friday, April 23 - Sunday, April 25 on wine.woot.com. Come visit, and leave your comments. You'll get a version 1.0 Wine Diaper for $2.00 each.

The New & Improved Wine Diaper!

2010-03-11T09:41:00.001-05:00

The moment you've all been waiting for has finally arrived: The Wine Diaper 2.0.

After a great start with our beta version, we've just rolled out our new and improved Wine Diaper.
We've listened to the feedback, done some research, and have come out with a second product that will
make traveling with wine even safer for you!

The new Wine Diaper features the following enhancements:

new blue color
white customizable version also available
thicker outer plastic
handle for easier carrying
Great new packaging options for our retailers

We're sure you'll love our new version. Take a look here:

Learn more at www.winediaper.com

2010 International Home & Housewares Show!

2010-03-11T09:37:00.001-05:00

In 3 days, the Wine Diaper hits Chicago! Idea Mia is heading to the 2010 Housewares show at the McCormick Center in Chicago.

We're super excited to be taking part in this amazing show--thousands of buyers from stores all over the world will be on site, and we're hoping to wow them with our new product.

As usual, we've got the Italians manning the booth--with the addition of another A+ salesperson: my dad, making his way down from the Great North to lend a hand at the show.

If you'll be attending the show, stop by our booth # 4065 to visit the Wine Diaper!

Boston Wine Expo

2010-01-21T11:55:00.000-05:00

T-2 days until we hit the Boston Wine Expo! If you happen to be in the area, this is taking place Saturday and Sunday, January 23rd & 24th at the Seaport Convention Center. The Wine Diaper will be there, represented by our Italian team: Marco, Carmine, Alessandro & Roberto. They'll be having specials on the Wine Diapers, giving away bottles of wine, holding demonstrations to show you just how the Wine Diaper absorbs up spills, and highlighting our 2.0 version (coming soon). Stop by our booth #326. We can't wait to meet you!
www.winediaper.com

Come See us in Boston!

2010-01-06T15:20:00.001-05:00

The Wine Diaper is coming to Boston! If you're in the area, stop by the Boston Wine Expo and visit our booth!
We'll be in Boston from January 22 - 24th. The Expo has wine seminars, tastings and--oh yeah! Wine Diapers!
Our booth will also be manned by 4 handsome Italians, so stop by to say "ciao" if nothing more. See you in Boston...

Win a Pair of Wine Diapers!

2009-11-17T12:13:00.000-05:00

That's right. I'm giving away a pair of Wine Diapers to whoever posts to this blog with his/her favorite cool wine gadget! Just to give you an idea, I came across this great gadget today:

Pretty cool, huh? These are called "Picnic Stix," and they are wine holders that come with stems that you just stick into the ground at the park...the beach...wherever you happen to be imbibing! Your wine doesn't tip over AND you look very cool drinking it.

So what fun wine gadgets have you come across? Let me know between now and November 23rd. I'll pick my favorite, and the winner will get 2 free Wine Diapers!

Thanksgiving on the Mind...

2009-11-11T18:59:00.000-05:00

Well, Thanksgiving's on my mind today, and I came across a fun article from Forbes that talked about Thanksgiving dinner wine pairings...the guy cited in the article (Gary Vaynerchuk) made 2 great points:

1) Ignore the traditional wine-pairing rules of the other 364 days of the year (red wines with roasted meats; light whites with salad). Forget about every food that's on the Thanksgiving table, actually. "All these rules have pigeonholed creativity," he says. "It's OK; try different things. Have fun with it, don't be intimidated by it."

2) Thanksgiving is a long day. So, if you're going to be drinking wine, be sure to pick varieties or styles you know you can drink all day--in other words, wines that are lower in alcohol and lighter in weight.Very good point! That is, unless you're going for the drunken stupor, which, depending on your family, can be a good idea.

So what's your favorite wine to have with Thanksgiving dinner?

My favorite new White

2009-11-10T23:04:00.000-05:00

Emeri...one of my new faves. This wine is great! They make fun wines that sparkle and are pretty. My preferred one is their sparkling Sauvignon Blanc. Yep. A sparkling Sauvignon Blanc. These are feminine, summery wines, and ladies--you'll love them. Even better? They're priced well--under $15 a bottle. Oh how I long for a glass right now, had on my back deck under a summer sky...but alas, it is November, and I have no Emeri.
In the metro Detroit area, you can pick up a bottle at Simply Wines in Birmingham.

Yeah, this has happened to you:

2009-11-10T22:40:00.002-05:00

What is The Wine Diaper, Anyway?

2009-11-10T22:35:00.000-05:00

So just what is this Wine Diaper? Well, imagine this. You've just spent an awesome 10 days gallivanting around Italy, soaking up sun, eating too much pasta...and drinking great wine. In fact, you want to bring some home! So you pick up a couple of bottles, wrap your nice cashmere sweaters around them, stuff them in your suitcase, and jet home.

Alas! When you get there, you discover one of your bottles has broken. Red wine is everywhere. Not only have you lost your wine, but your sweater is ruined...in fact, ALL of your clothes are ruined!!

Enter the Wine Diaper.

I used to travel a lot back and forth from Europe, and this has happened to me, and to many people I know. In my search for an answer to this problem, I came across a piece of advice that claimed that baby diapers were a good solution for packing wine. They'd help pad them, and if a bottle broke, the absorbent material would soak up the wine. I wondered if there might be a way to make a baby diaper into a "wine diaper."
Ten years later, and I've constructed this.

Visit my website, try one out! They're meant to help save you a ton of headaches when you bring home wine.

The Wine Diaper is Blogging!

2009-11-10T22:16:00.000-05:00

Well, Happy November everyone. As the Wine Diaper picks up speed as a new product, we wanted to create a daily blog related to all the things we love...namely: wine and travel. Here you'll find tidbits we come across about great wines, great travel, Italy, and of course...updates on the Wine Diaper. So we hope you'll stop in, browse around & leave some comments. Happy Travels...wine safety first!