Pour‑Ever™ — A unique and Patented Commercial Wine Preservation Technology Providing Extremely Long-Term or Indefinite Preservation. Low‑pressure safety. Multi‑bottle system readiness. Designed for restaurants, hotels, cruise lines, and high‑volume hospitality environments. Now available for licensing and OEM integration.
Executive Summary
Introduction
The PourEver Wine Preservation and Dispensing System offers a substantial improvement over current wine preservation and dispensing “P/D” systems, in both length and quality of preservation and ease/speed of integrating and removing each bottle (think Keurig™ vs. Mr. Coffee™). The actual technology and most recent design is not shown and not evident in the currently issued patent. Unpublished patents-pending and the current prototypes detail the most recent and efficient intellectual property and technical designs after more than a decade of extensive R&D and testing.
The Challenge
Market challenge: Educate the wine industry and public as to the benefits of PourEver vs. the preservation and dispensing systems currently on the market.
The Current Market
There is a substantial existing market for P/D systems. High-end units price from $6,000 to over $100,000 with a gross margin over 90% and offer a strong upsell or secondary/lateral sales opportunities for PourEver’s superior technology. PourEver offers substantial advantages over these systems.
8-bottle Commercial Unit Concept:
Untapped Markets
Also, and importantly, there are a number of untapped markets that currently technology is unable to accommodate which represent a wide-open opportunity for PourEver. These include large 1.5 or 3 liter bottles and expensive bottles of wine (rarely used with current systems for fear of spoilage and waste). With consumers demanding more expensive wines by-the-glass, the timing is ideal.
Another valuable market for this technology is expensive olive oils and similar. See the article excerpt below. PourEver offers a substantial improvement over current wine preservation and dispensing “P/D” systems, in both length of time and quality of preservation and ease/speed of integrating and removing each bottle in those situations where preservation may not be the priority.
The Business Opportunity
The preservation and dispensing market is ripe for a new entrant with new and superior technology that allows both far quicker cycling of bottles and dramatically longer preservation when desired.
Upside Potential beyond forecasts; “blue sky”
The actual realized potential and investor returns could be substantially larger than forecast if market penetration is even modestly successful. There is a real possibility that PourEver systems will sell at a substantially higher pace than forecast.
The Competition
There are several entrenched incumbents and a number of small startups. These use inefficient technologies (nothing like PourEver exists in the market), which involves exposing the wine to oxygen and initiating a rapid degrading or creating a dangerous pressurization of the wine bottle.
PourEver is the only commercially viable (vs. single bottle) system that prevents oxygen intrusion into the wine bottle.
Also, the competitor systems are cumbersome and time-consuming to add/remove wine bottles. PourEver is substantially quicker and easier and requires far less time and steps for both adding and removing bottles – it has strong appeal and competitive advantage even where preservation is not a concern, for example in popular bars/restaurant serving a large volume of value priced wines.
Product Development
Product development has been under development for more than 15 years, after working extensively with numerous engineers, IP/design master’s-level academia and product designers. The core technology is in place and has been repeatedly proven, with functional prototypes. The actual technology and most recent design is not evident in the currently issued patent or herein. Unpublished patents-pending and actual functional models detail the most recent and efficient intellectual property and technical designs and will be shared during due diligence with serious parties.
Intellectual Property
- The technology and IP is unique and is not known to exist anywhere in the market
- One US utility patent has been issued, with other patents pending and additional patents being prepared with technology improvements
- Trademark being applied for
- Next generation IP/technology is in process
The Management Team
Founder Jeff Manera is a long-term product developer who has patented several products and also has substantial experience in the financial/capital markets.
Investing /Partnering Options
Licensing Relationship (Preferred):
Licensing is preferred due to the likely ability of a large firm familiar with the industry and with resources/staff/funding in place to quickly scale up and product launch, manufacturing, distribution channels, etc. to saturate the market, before copy-cats etc. can enter the marketplace. This would be more of a challenge with a minority equity or debt partner not substantially contributing to the launch efforts.
The founder is very willing to remain involved in any capacity and willing to continue devoting substantial time to the venture, including on the advisory board, as the product spokesperson, relationship-building, continued with strategy / R&D contributions etc. etc.
Debt / Equity
Use of initial funds for debt/equity (vs. licensing):
Engineering/design to fine-tune design details, simplify components and assembly, mold setup/machining costs of unique parts, sourcing/stocking components, website design, local office setup, legal/patent work.
