This Guy Just Invented the World’s First Drip-Free Wine Bottle

Is there any sound as satisfying as the sharp pop and following glug, glug, glug of a good wine being uncorked and poured into a glass? What's less fun is the inevitable wine droplet that runs down the side of the bottle, resulting in tell-tale merlot rings on your coffee table and soiled white table linen.

First world problems, man!

However inconsequential errant wine droplets may be, they could soon be a thing of the past. Daniel Perlman, a biophysicist at Brandeis University in Massachusetts, claims to have invented a drip-free wine bottle.

After spending three years studying slow motion videos of wine being poured, Perlman used a diamond-studded tool to create a circular groove around the neck of a wine bottle, just beneath the top. When poured from this customised bottle, wine that would otherwise run down the side falls into the groove but can go no further, instead immediately falling off the bottle into the glass.

For a drop of wine to make it across the groove and drip down the bottle, it would have to travel up inside the groove against the force of gravity—something we're pretty sure even the fanciest Burgundy can't do.

While there are many wine-pouring gadgets on the market that claim to catch drips (or, y'know, you could just go for the trusty tea-towel-around-the-neck approach), Perlman wanted to prevent wine spillage by focusing on the bottle itself. In post on the university's website, he explained: "I wanted to change the wine bottle itself. I didn't want there to be the additional cost or inconvenience of buying an accessory."

Who says physics has no real-world application?