Product Description

The Metrokane Houdini wine preserver allows bottles to be stored horizontally. The preserver includes two pushbutton stoppers which holds the vacuum seal for days.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2301 in Kitchen & Housewares
• Color: blk
• Brand: Metrokane
• Model: 5577
• Dimensions: 2.10" h x 6.00" w x 7.70" l,

Features

• Pump vacuums oxygen out of opened wine bottles
• Preserves flavor and aroma by preventing oxidation
• Ergonomically designed pump works quickly and easily
• Includes 2 pushbutton stoppers to hold vacuum for days
• Measures 7 inches long and weighs 0.2 pounds

Amazon.com Review
You've spent an entertaining evening over several bottles of wine, but now you have a bunch of half-empty bottles sitting in the kitchen. What to do? Enjoy them to the end with the Metrokane Save-the-Wine vacuum pump, which removes the air from opened wine bottles to preserve the wine taste and bouquet. Without the vacuum seal, the oxygen-exposed wine will stale quickly, dramatically affecting the flavor. This ergonomically designed pump is simple to use, and it will let you drink the wine up to two weeks later with few ill effects. The pump comes with two pushbutton stoppers, each of which seals the vacuum tightly. The stoppers also release the vacuum at the touch of a button. --Rivers Janssen

From the Manufacturer
Metrokane expands its market with an affordable pump and a powerful selling message: "save the wine." Until now the market for wine vacuum pumps has been mostly limited to wine aficionados. Now Metrokane expands the market with an affordable pump and a name that speaks to the average wine drinker. The Save-the-Wine vacuum pump pays for itself when the first half bottle of good wine is preserved, and customers will be quick to recognize the value.

The design of Metrokane's Save-the-Wine vacuum pump is classically simple. It has an ergonomically shaped handle that pulls a vacuum with ease. It's packaged with two pushbutton stoppers that can hold a vacuum for days and will release it at the touch of a button.

Customer Reviews

What you'd expect from the maker of the Rabbit!
I've had enough half-bottles of wine starting to turn vinegar only one day after I opened them. I've tried enough different kinds of stoppers trying to prevent it.

FINALLY -- THIS ONE WORKS!!!

I bought this because it came inexpensively with my Rabbit corkscrew (which is also wonderful) and figured it was worth trying. WOW was it ever! Just put the stopper on the bottle, put the little hand pump on the stopper and give it a couple of pumps, and the wine is good to keep!

On the top of each stopper is a small "vacuum relief valve" -- just touch that to the side to let air back in the bottle to equalize the pressure, and the stopper comes out easily.

It has worked well for a couple days at a time. I haven't tried it for longer.

It sucks, but it also blows a little
I bought this item as a resplacement for another that had lasted several years before succumbing to the demise to which all devices with cheesy plastic parts eventully succumb. Fortunately, the Swissair I replaced was for use both with wine (suck out the air) and bubbly (pump air into the chamber), and the busted bit was stuck in the wine position, which was fine for 99% of its service.

Like a dummy, I got the Metrokane and chucked the Swissair in one irreversable transaction.

The Metrokane is servicable. It does what it purports to do: It sucks the air out of the bottle. If that were the whole story, I would undoubtedly give this product a 5. Alas, the value of the vacuum is only as good as the staying power of the vaccum, and that requires that the stopper provide a robust seal. To put it simply: The seal seems to be the weak link in this system.

If I pump the bottle, and immediately let out the seal, I get a satisfying hiss, indicating a positive seal. If I pump the bottle and wait a day, the hiss is a little less satisfying, indicating a slow leak. One might expect the day-later hiss to be diminished for other reasons (whatever it is that goes on inside the open bottle), but in comparison to the swissair, the next-day hiss is too differnt from the immediate release.

I have found if I wet the stopper, that helps, and the resulting seal can last a few days with very slow loss.

So, I gave the product a 4 -- it works, but not as well as what it replaced, and I think that issue is with the stopper, not the pump.

whow!!
I have had the "other" vacuum wine saver and it did the job so-so. Purchased this one as a stocking stuffer for a freind, and they raved about it so much that I got one for myself. It's great - especially the air release valve. Whow, no more wasted wine!!