Product Description

Use to preserve wine after opening.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #11244 in Kitchen & Housewares
• Brand: Vacu Vin
• Model: 8845
• Number of items: 2
• Dimensions: .10 pounds

Features

• Use with the Vacu Vin Wine Saver
• Reusable vacuum wine storage
• Keeps open wine fresh for two weeks
• 2 stoppers
• Hand washable

Amazon.com Review
Wine should breathe a little, but not overnight. Putting an end to the oxidation process, which turns a favorite Merlot into vinegar, is easy with the Vacu Vin Wine Saver. These long-lasting extra stoppers are designed to work with the vacuum-style pump (sold separately) to keep a wine fresh. Made of high-quality rubber, they won't affect the taste of the wine. And the method is simple--just place a stopper in the opening of a bottle, place the pump over the stopper, and pump air out until you feel some resistance. This process is suitable for preserving all but sparkling wines, and will save Chiantis, Syrahs, and others for up to two weeks. -- Madeleine Miller

Customer Reviews

There are cheaper and better options to save your wine
The main goal in keeping wine "leftovers" is to prevent the wine from aging between the time you open the bottle and when you finish the remaining wine. Air destroys wine, so you need to minimize the air contacat. You also have to keep the wine in the fridge during this time, because 55F is a 'normal aging temperature' and since the air is already aging the wine, you want to minimize *any* other degrading that might go on. Any temperature over 55F will simply make things worse.

The vacu-vin attempts to help by sucking the air out of a half-empty bottle of wine. Note that, instead of the few pumps their literature suggests, you need about 15 pumps to get most of the air out. For many wine types the fact that you are in essence lowering the pressure in the bottle pulls the 'liveliness' out of the wine, which ruins it.

I have done a series of tests for my website comparing both a red and white after 3 days, being stored under a variety of circumstances. The vacu-vin "works" in the sense that it does remove most of the air. However, it was also found to greatly harm some wines - even when you compare its use against a simple cork.

The *ideal* method of saving wine is cheap. Simply put the wine into a smaller glass bottle, cork it, and put it in the fridge. That has the best chance to keep the most common wines for another few days in the best condition. No air at all, no vacuum either. Of course, *no* method will really keep a wine in the same state it started in. You can always cook with the wine on the second day, and move along to your next bottle!

Life is too short to drink bad or old wine :)

You probably need more of these
If you have a VacuVin, you undoubtedly know the beauty of not having to finish a bottle of wine in one sitting. Having once experienced this freedom, why not enjoy more?

The VacuVin comes with two stoppers, but two quicky become insufficient. It is easy to suddenly have several partially full bottles - a red and a white; but then a friend comes over and you want to share a special bottle. A couple dollars eliminates this constrait.

Another reason to get more stoppers, is that they seem to loose their effectiveness over time - not keeping their vacuum seal very long. I am sometimes disappointed when I take out a "Vacced" bottle, squeeze the stopper, and don't hear the rush of air going into the bottle that indicated the seal held. Possibly the rubber hardens over time. One way to get more longevity out of the stoppers is to slightly wet them before using - the moisture seems to help the rubber get a good seal.

4 stars only because the stoppers should last longer.

Better get a couple of these
When you get tired of searching the kitchen drawer for one of these gray corks for your wine leftovers, realize that the last one probably DID roll under the fridge or become a chew-toy for Fideaux. So have a packet of these on hand.