“We are delighted with our new twin Pod Bar which has allowed us to refresh our wine list from top to bottom.  We’ve removed references to ‘house wines’ and instead place great emphasis on promoting a wide selection of premium wines and Champagnes by the glass. The Pod Bar enables us to keep every open bottle in perfect condition and ensures we deliver great quality wines at perfect serving temperature, glass after glass.
We are so confident in our by the glass offering, we have introduced food and wine matching and have seen a marked increase in our profits from by the glass sales; an extensive by the glass service will form a key part of our offer for many years to come. We love the Pod Bar - and our customers love the new offer…. we have no reservation in recommending the product or Bermar, the company that manufacture and supply it.”

Judy Bradley, Mr Underhills, Ludlow

Bhagwant Singh, the Ambar and Gallery Brand Development Manager at Odeon Cinemas:

One of Europe’s largest and most prestigious Cinema chains, Odeon, has now installed Pod Bars in its flagship cinemas (a brand standard in all new and refurbished bars), where it instantly becomes the centerpiece of the back bar display. We’re certain you’ll agree that the fantastic installation image (see above right and attached in High-Res) along with an incredibly detailed and compelling testimonial (below), addressed to our M.D. from the group’s ‘Brand Development Manager’, says all there is to say about the potential for a great wine and Champagne by the glass service in your accounts.

Mr. Singh has authorised us to use his testimonial and image to share with potential customers – it doesn’t get more powerful than absolutely zero wastage and an increase in total sales from 20% to 41% for wine ‘by the glass, in just over two months.

Bhagwant Singh, the Ambar and Gallery Brand Development Manager at Odeon Cinemas

The Quad-Pod is a fantastic addition to our bar operation… it allows us to offer a perfect ‘by the glass’ service while marketing the range to our customers in the most comtemporary manner available… we love it!

Philippe Cauviere, Director at WWW Shop and Bar, Nairobi

Nick Barrett, Scutchers, Long Melford, Suffolk

David Bassett - Manager, Angels with Bagpipes, Edinburgh

Mrs Utteridge, The Bell Inn, Essex

Ex-Cellar, London

We are so confident in Le Verre de Vin that we have four premium champagnes by the glass, and in 12 months we have never had a problem. The confidence that Le Verre de Vin gives to restaurateurs in opening better quality wines is huge

Roger Jones, The Harrow, Little Bedwyn

Imagine having up to 30 different bottles of wine open, in perfect nick, in two independently temperature controlled areas at any one time – Heaven!

Matthew Jukes, The Observer - Wine Writer

Thanks to our Barclay Bar we have the confidence to offer our customers more than 20 wines and Champagnes by the glass, all in prime condition and served at the perfect temperature – red or white

Sam Harrison, Owner - Sam’s Brasserie

“During the initial 4 months of the program 60,000 glasses of wine were sold. And all of them owe their quality and freshness to Le Verre de Vin”

Rick Hummrich - Director of Purchasing - Starwood Europe

I definitely recommend the ‘Le Verre de Vin’ system to any establishment looking to confidently and consistently serve a quality glass of wine to their customers

Michael Ng – General Manager - Scott’s Seafood Grill and Bar – Folsom - USA

Le Verre de Vin should be compulsory in restaurants – it is of huge benefit

John Hoskins MW - Huntsbridge Group - UK

Le Verre de Vin enables us to accommodate our guests’ tastes with a wide selection at the right price point. We are now able to offer a selection of premium wines to our guests without compromis­ing on quality

Steven Hicks – InterContinental Hotels Group - Regional VP for Southeast Asia

Installing Le Verre de Vin was a win-win-win decision at Kai Mayfair.

We are always looking for ways enchance our customers' experiences at the restaurant, increase selling opportunities but at the same time NOT increasing our cost base unnecessarily.

Le Verre de Vin achieves on all 3 levels! Customers get a wider choice of wines, we get additional opportunities to sell and our costs are secured knowing that the Verre de Vin system will remove the risk of wastage in the process of offering more options to customers.

Bernard Yeoh - Proprietor - Kai Mayfair, London

The ‘Le Verre de Vin’ wine preservation system makes sense on so many levels. It instills confidence in our servers knowing they are only serving the highest quality wine with every glass. It also ensures Shaw’s reputation for its’ exceptional wine selection is not compromised. We all know a satisfied equals a repeat customer. This coupled with cost effectiveness of properly preserving our wines, will only drive our profits up.

Steve Tindle - Partner - Shaws Crab House, Chicago IL

I have been working with the ‘Verre de Vin system’ for more than 3 years now. It is an extremely efficient system which allows us to offer every single one of our 85 wines by the glass. The response from our customers has been awesome! The best part is that we have been able to meet the financial targets of the business with very minimal wastage from wines. My only question is: ‘Why aren’t more restaurants offering the same service?

Gidi Caetano - Salt Restaurant, South Africa

Le Verre de Vin has enabled us to offer far more of our renowned wine selection ‘by the glass’, meeting growing customer demand for better quality wines without having to buy the bottle.

We also have the possibility of matching these wonderful wines with our award-winning food.

Alain Desenclos - Restaurant Director – Le Manoir Aux Quat’ Saisons, London

Just a quick not to say how delighted we are with our Le Verre de Vin systems. As you know, we have been using Le Verre de Vin in our Barbaresco winery for nearly seven years now and in that time we have trusted Le Verre de Vin to look after the opened bottles in our tasting room, safe in the knowledge that each and every pour is going to be as fresh as the first.

In fact we were so impressed with Le Verre de Vin, that last year we decided to invest in another system for our winery. We know that there are other commercial preservation systems on the market but we chose Le Verre de Vin because it does the best job for our business and our wines... many thanks.

Gaia Gaja - GAJA Wine Producers

Since we purchased the system back in June 2008 we have been offering our guests around 23 wines ‘by the glass’ 12 of which are Champagnes!

You will be pleased to hear that we found the system easy to install and exceptionally simple to operate. Le Verre de Vin has given us the confidence to offer this extended selection of wines ‘by the glass’, safe in the knowledge that each and every pour will be served in perfect drinking condition.

As a consequence we have eliminated all wastage issues and noted a significant increase in guests wanting to ‘trade up’ to the more expensive wines on offer. We have also seen a very healthy increase in the volume of wine that we are selling.

Thierry Collard - Beverage Manager - Sofitel Paris La Défense

Wine preservation is a major priority for us- serving wines by the glass in prime condition is vital.

We have used other systems before, but since we invested in a Verre de Vin system, the difference is very clear.

Le Verre de Vin is a complete system, professionally built and is designed for anyone who is serious about managing a serious by the glass still and sparkling wine offer.

Staff find the system easy to operate, and so use it all the time, and the confidence that our wines are fresh at all times, including the sparkling wine /champagne

Martin Lam - Ransomes Dock, London

Darran Lingley, Five Bells, Colne Engaine, Colchester

Silvano Giraldin - Le Gavroche – London - UK