Vacu Vin 3-Piece Wine Saver Gift Pack, White
by Vacu Vin Inc.
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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of Vacu Vin 3-Piece Wine Saver Gift Pack, White
Customer Review: Not an useful tool
Summary: 1 Stars
I bought this "Vacu Wine Saver Gift Pack" and attempted to use it with traditional bottles; i.e. Bordeaux, Burgendy, Rhine and more.
I followed their instructions exactly as presented.
In no instance did their special stoppers maintain a moderate vacuum for more than 24 hours.
Save your money on this item- - -simply don't buy it
Customer Review: Seems to work
Summary: 5 Stars
When I first got this thing I was curious to see if I would notice the difference between an opened bottle and an unopened bottle 24 hours later, so I did a blind taste test. I couldn't tell the difference.
My only issue with the thing is that it's hard to tell when to stop pumping. You also have to be careful to put enough pressure on the thing while pumping to actually make the seal. But once you have the seal, it seems to work fine. Then again, I've only stored my wine for 24 hours at most.
Customer Review: Simple and Effective!
Summary: 5 Stars
The concept, design of, and use of this product is so simple that I said DUH! when I learned of it. We had previously used the the bottle stoppers that twisted to pour out the wine, but it did not matter as the wine would definitely have a bite after a few days. Using these handy little stoppers we have found most wines make it a week and sometimes as long as a week and a half tasting pretty close to the original. Definitely worth the money. I have read the debunking stories and they have a point, however, how many of us are going to open a bottle regardless of age and try to make it last several weeks? We normally drink ours within a few days at most, on occasion it might make it a week or two. This is a nice alternative to the "upper crust" theory of nitrogen, big vacuum pumps, etc. I simply have no desire to invest that much money as our purpose for opening a bottle is to......drink it.Customer Review: It works!
Summary: 5 Stars
We use our vacu vin wine saver all of the time since purchasing it about six months ago. It enables us to put partially full bottles back into our wine cooler, which we were unable to do before. We had tried unsuccessfully to do this with other wine corks. Customer Review: Not perfect but quite good
Summary: 4 Stars
Read with interest the review by "Mouton45". Obviously a wine connoisseur and, I concede, far more knowledgeable than I. On the other hand, I've drunk my share of wines from fair to very good by any standard. I simply cannot put a bottle of wine away with a meal or even in a day or two. The wine saver is terrific for someone like me, who'd like to be able to enjoy the wine the next day and, yes, next week.
Admittedly the device isn't perfect but it helps a heck of a lot. From a chemist's point of view, the device is remarkably simple and effective. True it does not remove all the oxygen from a wine bottle (by removing the air) but it removes quite a lot. Being skeptical by nature, I conducted a little experiment early on with my wine saver. Take an empty bottle and pump it as empty as you can. Then invert the bottle -- with cork still in the neck -- into a pot of water. THEN pull the cork with the mouth well under water. You'll be astonished at how much water is pulled in to the bottle. Meaning that most of the air (and oxygen) has been removed.
But not perfect -- a little air does remain and that will affect the flavor of the wine eventually. But it drastically reduces the oxygen partial pressure, enormously reduceing the rate at which oxygenation takes place -- and taste degradation takes place. And the device is cheap, simple and reliable for years.
Other devices? You can buy a small can of compressed nitrogen gas -- smaller than a can of hairspray. Spray a small blast of nitrogen thru a tube inserted to just over the surface of the wine, remove the tube and re-cork. Displaces most of the air in the bottle. They cost $10 or $15 per can and eventually run out of gas. I was told by a local fine wine proprieter that its about as effective as the wine saver.
Lastly, your wine saver pump can be attached to a specially made container (looking much like typical plastic fridge storage containers) and most of the air can be removed from your pate' or spaghetti sauce. For quick to spoil foods that you'd like to store for awhile but not freeze, it reduces oxidative damage and retards growth of many spoilage organisms.