There's more than one way to open a bottle of wine but all of them involve having you to finish the bottle. A new opener from Coravin is extremely innovative.

It lets you drink one glass at a time, by performing what looks like to be a surgical procedure on a bottle. Its Wine Access System 1000 which launched today is a device that's a lot like a standard opener, except that its corkscrew has been replaced with a thin, hollow needle.

Push it into the cork and it releases a dose of argon inside the bottle's chamber. This pressurizes the contents to a point where the wine is forced up into the needle and out of the spout. This invention is genius.  When you’re done, the cork springs back into place.

The system prevents the usual chemical reaction between wine and oxygen. When you pop the cork, the wine tannins inside the bottle begin to interact with the oxygen. This process is called oxidation or "flattening". It produces hydrogen peroxide and ends up turning the wine's ethanol into acetaldehyde that ages the wine.

The Coravin opener goes for $300. Check out how it works in the video: [Coravin via CNET]