This gadget keeps an 'open' wine bottle fresh for over a decade

What if you could drink wine without ever worrying about it spoiling?

A device called the Coravin, which lets you pour wine without ever popping the cork, could make it possible.

Coravin uses a tiny needle that punctures through the cork so the wine doesn't aerate. This means you can taste a bit of one bottle, stash it away, and revisit it months — even years — later. No one has to choose between red or white again.

Coravin officially launched in 2013, but the device's inventor Greg Lambrecht has been testing the device for 14 years. He tells Tech Insider that wine can last for decades by using the gadget.

Lambrecht, who holds two MIT engineering degrees, has spent most of his career designing medical equipment. In the late '90s, he helped invent a super skinny needle for children undergoing chemotherapy, since it can puncture skin relatively painlessly. The Coravin uses a variation of that same needle.

Here's how it works.