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Rating:  - It really works!
My husband and I have been using this product for at least three years. We find it a necessity since my husband likes red wine and I do not, so we never consume one bottle of red in one sitting. There is no guilt felt when opening a bottle to have one or two glasses. When we want to have just one glass each we also have the freedom to have a different wine. The opened white wine is stored in the refrigerator and that extends the life for a few weeks. It is nice to have a chilled bottle ready for when I want just one glass. We have a large bottle that we use this stopper on, that we store the soured wine in for those bottles of red that went sour due to forgetting to finish the bottle, that we use as homemade wine vinegar.
Rating: - Simple and effective solution for unfinished bottles
I find bottles resealed with this vacuum stop to maintain freshness longer than with a cork. Although it depends on the kind of wine, I find the wine is perfectly enjoyable for a couple of days, and in some cases still acceptable within a week. I could never enjoy bottles resealed with cork more than a day after, before started using this product.However, after experimenting several things, I found a few tips I describe below will help maintaining wine fresher than just using this product without thinking. These steps are unnecessary if you know you will finish the bottle. 1. Chill the bottle before opening. You need to do nothing if the bottle is just out of wine fridge. You can warm the wine in the glass later. 2. Pour chilled wine into glasses just after opening the bottle, and seal the bottle with vacu-vin right away. You can aerate the wine in the glass. If you know you'll have three glasses for yourself, you can even pour into three glasses now! The idea is to minimize the time the wine is exposed to the air. 3. Keep the vacuum sealed bottle refrigerated. However, before drinking, make sure you warm it up to your regular serving temperature (I like most reds at 65-70F) and aerate the wine.
If you serve wine too cold, you may feel it tastes flat and acidy, with less body, and you might incorrectly think this is because of imperfection of the vacu-vin. Finally, once opened, I don't think any wine can be stored for a long time without losing freshness, and this product is not an exception. It merely helps extending acceptable storage time from one day to a few days.
Rating: - An essential item when you don't want to drink it all now
This is a great tool for anyone who likes wine. I use mine all the time. It does preserve wine well and is quite easy to use, but I would encourage you to get extra stoppers and to use only Vacu Vin brand. I've found that other brands don't always work very well.For red wines at optimal drinking age, don't rely on the vacu vin for more than 1-2 days, 3 at most (and that will be too much for some). You may find that younger wines even benefit from a few days. This is worth trying if you open a bottle and find you don't like it. Or, if it's that bad, preserve it for cooking. Enjoy!
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