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Brand: Vacu Vin
Category: Kitchen

List Price: ~~$14.99~~
Buy New: $7.45
You Save: $7.54 (50%)

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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

108 reviews
Sales Rank: 186

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

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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.

5 out of 5 stars

I still love it December 22, 2006
9 out of 9 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.

5 out of 5 stars

The most useful thing September 5, 2006
17 out of 18 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.

4 out of 5 stars

Works great! July 13, 2006
4 out of 9 found this review helpful

Thls wine saver is easy to use and will definitely keep wine for an extended period. Works considerably better than another product I had tried.

1 out of 5 stars

Don't waste your money, these are hit or miss at best June 22, 2006
6 out of 16 found this review helpful

I love good Italian wine, but try to limit myself to one glass a day for health reasons. I purchased this gadget at a local wine store and assumed that meant it was useful. That was a big mistake!

This gadget doesn't do anything including seal the wine in the bottle when stored on its side in the wine cellar. Some of the time a bottle on its side won't leak, but it is just a likely to leak. I tried buying another set of stoppers and having my husband seal them as well as myself. No change made a difference. Sometime they work, and sometime they don't.

Additionally, when you buy a nice Brunello or a Super Tuscan do you really want to risk it become an expensive bottle of vinegar, I don't.

I purchased the wine stoppers for my foodsaver and am much happier with those. At least they don't leak. Although I do finish the bottle as quickly as possible just to sure.

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