Vacu Vin Reviews: Vacu Vin Wine Saver Blister Pack -1 Pump 1 Stoppergood

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List Price : $15.02 Price : $3.98

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Vacu-Vin wine saver system. The only thing sadder than pouring spoiled wine down the drain is not opening it at all because you can't finish the bottle at one meal. The one and only original Vacu-Vin used in more than 10 million homes worldwide is the easiest most affordable way to preserve opened wines. The Vacu-Vin pump removes the air (and the oxygen that spoils wine) from opened bottles. Place it over the reusable stopper and pump out the air. The more stoppers you have the more bottles you can save! One-year warranty. Includes one pump and one stopper. Gift boxed. Fits sll bottles up to a Magnum size bottle. Additonal stoppers available here.

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Vacu Vin Wine Saver Blister Pack -1 Pump 1 Stopper Reviews

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful

Costs less than an average bottle of wine, December 26, 2007

Lynn Hoffman, author:The Short Course in Beer (Philadelphia) - See all my reviews

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... Read more

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

New pump is compatible with old style 3-rib stoppers, January 5, 2012

Michael (Oregon, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Vacu Vin Wine Saver Blister Pack -1 Pump 1 Stopper (Kitchen)

I've been using this product for a quarter century or more. It's always worked well for me, and i can keep a bottle of red wine (at room temperature) for a week, sometimes two, with it.

Recently i had an opportunity to compare what the wine would taste like without using this product because, unbeknownst to me, my pump stopped working. The next day, i noticed a strikingly unpleasant shift in the taste of my bottle of wine. I blamed it on a bad stopper, so rotated it out. Another bottle of wine, same thing. After figuring out it was the pump, not the stoppers, which had failed, i bought a new pump. My next-day bottle of wine started tasting nearly as good as a freshly uncorked bottle. It was a striking difference. So i can reaffirm that this product does indeed work very well.

Some people seem to have less luck with it than i do. Every wine is of course different. But i suspect the biggest difference may be in how people use it. Firstly, i never... Read more

Easiest, Simplest Wine Vacuum, April 8, 2012

Thomas P. Krafft "thomaskrafft" (Eaton, Colorado) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Vacu Vin Wine Saver Blister Pack -1 Pump 1 Stopper (Kitchen)

I was concerned that the quality might be sacrificed for such a low price, but I was pleasantly surprised. This one is an additional vacuum for me and I'm happy to say that the twenty years between purchases shows no lowering in quality. The 'cork' is a different design but backward compatible so I don't need to keep straight which corks go with which vacuum. With just a few pulls--and it's obvious when when to quit--the wine is made safe from oxygen. I highly recommend this as a useful gadget that should be in every wine enthusiast's kitchen.