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Brand: Vacu Vin
Category: Kitchen

List Price: ~~$9.99~~
Buy New: $6.76
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

30 reviews
Sales Rank: 145

Color: Gray
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6.9 x 0.9

Model: 85218
UPC: 084256008522
EAN: 0084256008522
ASIN: B00005AS51

Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Condition: Brand New Factory Sealed, (We do not ship to APO'S, FPO'S HI, AK, NY KS, WA, ND)

Customer Reviews:

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Cheap Stoppers Save Wine March 8, 2007
I recently bought the Vacu Vin kit from the local grocery and it worked fine. The only problem was that the kit contained only one stopper. I use the extra stoppers for multiple, opened wine bottles.

The excess air is removed and the wine stays fresher longer.

5 out of 5 stars

Wine stoppers January 9, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful

These things work great to preserve your bottle of wine! My husband & I don't usually consume an entire bottle of wine in one sitting, so we started using the Vacu Vin wine savers, & now we open several bottles, reds, whites, whatever & don't worry about wasting the wine because it keeps for so long now!

5 out of 5 stars

Like marriage, it's great if you have realistic expectations August 21, 2006
26 out of 29 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 THE NEW SHORT COURSE IN WINE and the forthcoming novel bang-BANG from Kunati Books. ISBN 9781601640005

5 out of 5 stars

Thr right tool for the job May 22, 2006
4 out of 8 found this review helpful

Small, ugly & perfect. If you don't buy these now--you'd best put them on your wish list!

5 out of 5 stars

Wine Stoppers September 7, 2005
4 out of 7 found this review helpful

I had the opportunity to use these this past weekend and they work exactly as described. Wish I had known about them earlier.

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