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| Pek Preservino Hand Held Wine Preserver | 
 enlarge | Brand: Pek
Category: Kitchen
List Price: $44.95
Buy New: $39.00
You Save: $5.95 (13%)
New (13) from $39.00
Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 48562
Color: Silver
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0 x 0
Warranty: 1
MPN: PPV1
Model: PPV1
UPC: 182501000137
EAN: 0182501000182
ASIN: B000JLIREG
Availability: Usually ships in 2-3 business days
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| Features:
| • | Measures 2 by 7 by 5-inches; 1-year limited warranty | | • | Handheld preservation system | | • | Convenient and afforable | | • | Uses high-purity Argon gas to keep wine at peak of freshness | | • | Comes with 2 specialized corks and removable nozzle |
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Product Description
PEK Preservino makes wine preservation portable. Enjoy wine by the glass without the pressure to finish an uncorked bottle. This portable wine preservation devise keeps your bottle at the peak of freshness in just 3-easy steps. Insert the nozzle in to the custom cork, inject the gas and remove the nozzle...and you're all done! High-purity argon preserves your wine for days to follow.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Works great, esp. in small bottles September 2, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I'm a big fan of this product. It's totally changed how I drink wine. My wife is not a big wine fan, so before I had this product, opening a bottle was a "full bottle commitment". This precluded me from tasting the more expensive wines from my cellar without a partner.
Now what I do is decant half of a new bottle into a half-bottle (which I wash and reuse). I preserve the half bottle with argon gas. Because there is only 1 cm of air at the top of the half bottle, it tales very little argon! I then enjoy the remaining half of the bottle and save the other half for later. The non-consumed half bottles easily keep a week, so now I can taste my more expensive wines as two half-bottle events instead of a full bottle event. The only downside is that you have to be fairly religious about washing the half bottles and Preservino stoppers.
I will give this device to fellow wine-drinkers as a gift.
Drink well!
 Hmm does it really work? July 24, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I bought this as a Christmas gift for my wife. It was expensive and fancy looking, but does it work? I think the results are inconclusive, certainly not clear one way or another. That being said the majority of the wines my wife drinks are sub $10 bottles, so it may be that the wine is questionable to begin with. I have used it on some quality wines and I would still be hard pressed to determine if the argon made any difference. I would not make this purchase again unless the price was cut in half.
Poor quality materials, weak build. June 20, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I payed a few extra bucks to get the professional set, but there's nothing professional about it. The stoppers are made of cheap plastic and the seal is at best modestly tight. The cartridge holder is also made of cheap plastic and it doesn't close all the way. I don't find the wine to be atill fresh after 2 days, even if I keep it in the fridge. Do you want to drink your wine before it get spoiled? I suggest finishing the bottle in one sitting. Or try something else.... this product is definitely not worth 50 bucks.
 Works wonderfully but at a price March 14, 2007
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
I love how well this system works! I've been using one for three months and recently bought another for a friend. I have opened a "saved" bottle a week after using the PEK system and it still tastes exactly as it should. It's amazing. I had been using a vac-u-vin by the same company and now when I use it I can clearly taste the difference in the wine the next day.
The one downside is that the argon is fairly expensive. You can buy a pack of 4 cartridges for approx $12. The party line is that you can store 8-10 bottles with a cartridge. Although I am far from an expert and probably use more argon than necessary, I only get 2-3 bottles per cartridge. At first I wasn't using enough so I am certain to count to the upper end of what they recommend. If I manage to eek out 3 bottles, it's still $1 per bottle saved. Worth it to me, but maybe not to everyone...
 Made of low quality plastic and does NOT work November 21, 2006
13 out of 14 found this review helpful
Product is made of plastic that feels extremely cheap - akin to disposable toys from McDonald's. One of the 2 stoppers arrived broken in 2 pieces. I used this on the remaining half bottle of $35 2003 cabernet and followed its instructions for "best results".
After 4 days, I tried the wine: no fruit presented - instead just a strong smell of alcohol in glass(Riedel Vinum). Couldn't take more than 1 drink as the wine tasted off and seemed to "singe" the sides of my tongue and the back of my throat.
I should've stayed away when I didn't see any endorsements by wine experts!
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