| Vacu Vin 3-Piece Wine Saver Gift Pack, White | 
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| Brand: Vacu Vin
Category: Kitchen
List Price: $14.99
Buy New: $7.44
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Avg. Customer Rating:  105 reviews
Sales Rank: 520
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 2.8 x 1.4 x 5
MPN: V-20
Model: 98125
UPC: 084256000182
EAN: 0084256000182
ASIN: B00004SAF4
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Brand New Factory Sealed, (We do not ship to APO'S, FPO'S HI, AK, NY KS, WA, ND)
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| Customer Reviews:
 This Works! January 29, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Looking at the reviews of this an other Vacuvin products, you see reports that are deeply contradictory. It's interesting that there is such a divergence of experience with such a simple product. The ideas behind Vacuvin are pretty simple.
First, air is the enemy of an open bottle of wine. Bacteria in the air want to turn alcohol into vinegar. The air itself oxidizes and dulls the taste of all but the most robust wines.
Second, you can remove some of the air with a simple pump and thereby slow down the rate at which wine deteriorates.
Why then, do we have both no-star and five-star reactions to this product?
Maybe the biggest source of disagreement is expectations. Vacuvin slows the deterioration of wine in the bottle, but it doesn't stop it.
Another possible reason for all the disagreement might be a question of temperature. The biochemical reactions that kill your wine are temperature sensitive. They proceed faster when the wine is warm and slow down when it's cool. Putting a pumped-out bottle in the refrigerator or wine cooler will slow down the spoilage processes and make Vacuvin more effective.
A third issue is the way the wine is handled before the Vacuvin plug goes in. If wine has a lot of air dissolved in it by being poured from decanter to bottle, there's no system that will keep it fresh.
For more info on wine storage, check out my book, The New Short Course in Wine.
--Lynn Hoffman, author of New Short Course in Wine,The and bang BANG: A Novel from Kunati Books. 9781601640005
Quick, convenient, and does the job!! January 21, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Works well, quick and easy to use at an affordable price. Extends the life of an open bottle of wine by at least a week. What else can you ask for.
 Wine? Don't know...but for juice its perfect January 18, 2007
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I drink much more juice than wine, and found that these savers are the perfect supplement to anyone making homemade juices. Instead of a fridge life of 2 days, you can extend the life of fresh fruit juices to at least 5 days. Basically, less oxygen (and a tighter seal) leads to a slower breakdown. Definately worth the $6 I paid for this set.
I still love it December 22, 2006
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
OK, so this DOESN'T create a vacuum, but then again, neither does your "vacuum" cleaner. This, however, doesn't stop it from performing its actual function perfectly well.
Forget the hype about this preserving your wine by removing the oxygen--which it does to a negligible extent by virtue of it removing some of the bottle's air, which is about one fifth oxygen. What the Vacu Vin system does is create an easily removable pressure differential that allows the casual wine consumer easy access to an already-open bottle of wine, without the tedium of using a corkscrew again or dealing with cork bits floating in their glass of wine. In other words, the Vacu Vin system removes some air from the bottle so the atmospheric pressure outside the bottle is greater than the pressure inside, thus keeping the plastic stopper in place. The user can equalize the pressure by pinching the stopper, thus opening it and allowing for the almost effortless extraction of the stopper.
The real beauty I've seen of this system is that it allows anyone who has issues with manual strength (e.g., arthritis), to re-open a bottle of wine without assistance or pain. To them, this item can be a great aid.
Realistically, if you are going to lay out the money for very expensive bottles of wine on a regular basis, then a nitrogen pressurization system with expendable (and expensive) nitrogen cartridges may be your answer; or, maybe you should just invite some friends over to help you polish off the bottle in one evening ;). However, if you want to keep a bottle of wine available for daily use, or from weekend to weekend, then the Vacu Vin will likely be a good solution for you.
The most useful thing September 5, 2006
16 out of 17 found this review helpful
I bought my Vacu Vin set about 4 years ago and it's still working perfectly. It's so easy to use and it does preserve the wine flavor for at least a few days. We no longer have to finish a whole bottle in one sitting or risk a spoiled wine. I've recommended it to a few of my friends and they all say they can't live without it now.
Few things of note:
* Even with Vacu Vin, the wine will start to change flavor if kept over a week.
* You do need to pump a lot more than the instruction indicates. Keep pumping until you feel a strong resistance.
* Vacu Vin cannot be used for wines with fizz (such as Vino Verde, Champagne, etc). The reduced pressure will suck the gas out of the wine and make it flat very quickly.
* It's better to keep the bottle upright so there's no pressure on the rubber stopper (It does not need to stay moist like a cork).
Its purpose is to keep a leftover wine until you finish it, and it does that quite well.
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