Sample fine wines before you buy. The Westport Whiskey & Wine self-serve, Italian-made Enomatic system dispenses wine directly from the bottle to the glass and preserves that just-uncorked flavor and bouquet for more than three weeks using a revolutionary argon gas preservation technology.

To use the system, customers purchase a re-usable wine card, insert it into the Enomatic’s card reader, select a wine and decide on a one-, three, or five-ounce pour size. The wine is automatically served at the correct temperature through automatic self-cleaning spouts and the cost is immediately deducted from the user’s card. The price of the pour is determined by the retail bottle price.

Current Tasting Selections

Clark-Claudon

Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2002

Wine Enthusiast rating: 91 points

From lower Howell Mountain, this 100% Cab has bigtime tannins and tremendous authority. It’s dry and slightly rustic now, with an edgy feel, but the core of ripe Cabernet fruit suggests that it will blossom and improve by 2008, and then hold until at least 2015. — S.H. (8/1/2006)

$94.99 - 750ml

Chimney Rock

Stag’s Leap District Cabernet Sauvignon 2005

Wine Spectator rating: 90 points

Elegant and supple, showing herb, tobacco and tea-laced currant and black cherry flavors that are complex and well-proportioned, with a long, lingering finish. Drink now through 2013. 28,840 cases made. –JL

$61.99 - 750ml

Long Shadows Pirouette

Columbia Valley, Washington 2005

Wine Spectator rating: 91 points

The 2005 Pirouette features winemakers Agustin Huneeus and Philippe Melka. It is composed of 57% Cabernet Sauvignon, 20% Merlot, 14% Syrah, 5% Malbec, and 4% Cabernet Franc aged for 22 months in 75% new French oak. Saturated purple in color, it offers aromas of wood smoke, earth notes, spice box, plum, black currant, and blueberry.

$64.99 - 750ml

Caymus

Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2006

Wine Spectator rating: 90 points

Full-blown, ripe and rich, with intense and sharply focused dried currant, wild berry and blackberry fruit that’s still fairly tannic at this stage. Ends with a long, persistent finish. Best from 2010 through 2015. 33,900 cases made. –JL $72.99 - 750ml

HdV Belle Cousine

Napa Valley 2004

Wine Spectator rating: 88 points

Aromas of blackberry and toasty oak open to elegant, complex black cherry, spice and cedar flavors that build richness on the finish. Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon. Drink now through 2012. 2,175 cases made. –TF

$56.99 - 750ml

Orin Swift Papillon

Napa Valley 2006

Ruby red with notes of campfire, toast and sweet vanilla. On the palette - wild strawberry, rhubarb, and sassafras. And the finish - 30 plus seconds with an impression of cherry pie.

$64.99 - 750ml

d’Arenberg The Dead Arm

McLaren Vale, Australia 2006

Stephen Tanzer rating: 93 points

Opaque ruby. Blackberry and candied cherry on the nose, with suave graphite and anise qualities adding complexity. Deep and rich but also focused, with powerful dark berry preserve flavors and a late kick of iron. There’s lots going on here, and this energetic wine is still painfully young. Finishes with mounting sweetness and a strong echo of minerals.

$85.99 - 750ml

Chappellet Pritchard Hill Estate Red

Napa Valley 2005

Wine Spectator rating: 96 points

Big, ripe and complex, but light on its feet. An elegant, spicy mix of rich currant, anise, toasty oak, espresso and subtle herbal scents, all of which fold together nicely, ending with a long, persistent finish. Cabernet Sauvignon, Petit Verdot and Malbec. Best from 2010 through 2016. 1,426 cases made. –JL

$133.99 - 750ml