As someone who realy enjoys a glass of wine, or 2, but NOT the whole bottle at the same time, about 10 years ago I discovered this GENIUS of a little wine keeper system!

I know there are more expensive systems out there, but those are just not in my budget, AND, I cannot imagine how they could work better than the VAC-U-VIN!

I have been proud to give many of these as gifts to friends and family - I have been extremely pleased with the storage of wine (not sparkling) AND AT ROOM TEMPERATURES, with the VAC-U-VIN. I mention this, because there are those of us who truly enjoy wines, but do not have built-in wine-cooler refrigerators, or even much space to spare, often, in our regular refrigerators - So the VAC-U-VIN's ability to keep wines for a week or several weeks, AT even room-temperatures, is a real plus.

Just know, I realize that refrigerating even VAC-U-VIN-sealed bottles would be even better for maintaining the integrity of the flavors -

The VAC-U-VIN and its rubber, self-sealing corks work simply, and so well: Once the cork is in place, the VAC-U-VIN is then placed over the rubber stopper, and,depending on the air volume left in the bottle, you pump by hand as much of the air as you can, out of the bottle.

And, with most of the oxygen removed, this greatly curtails the deterioration of the wine, keeping it very nicely until you want the remainder. COOK with wine? VAC-U-VIN would be great for keeping the remainder on hand for "the next time"!

There is nothing else to buy, no gas cartridges, no other ongoing supplies - Simple, Inexpensive, and WORKS BEAUTIFULLY! What more might one want?!?

I will continue to use my VAC-U-VIN, share them as gifts, and I hope you will enjoy using yours as much as I / we have!
LRC

Been using these for years, Stick the stopper in the bottle, pump a couple times and viola! wine stays fresh, bottle doesn't leak, back in the fridge it goes til you're ready for the next glass - even if its a couple days later.

We have used this type of product for several years. This is an excellent gift for a wine lover friend.

I odered it through Amazon...not to mention .....Perfect delivery .
I think it is a must Accessory for Wine peeps!
It really keeps the air out of the bottle and keep the wine FRESH!
If you want to drink remaining wine bottle the next day or even after 3-4 days....With this vaccum ....it keeps the wine fresh. No more excess fermentation.Bottle fits perfect in the wiine cooler.
I bought one wine stopper from Brookstone for $35 dollars ...a fancy one....but it broke in 6 months and was too bulky...and bottle wont even fit in my wine cooler.
This is a great product.

As per a suggestion from another reviewer, I bought this instead of the Vacu Vin coffee keeper. I just put my coffee beans into an empty wine bottle, and they stay fresh.

I had been given this product as a gift and feel in love with it. Many is the time there is left over wine in the bottle. This product will save the wine, by removing all the excess air. I have since given this as gifts to my wine loving friends. I even take it on vacation!!! Perfect if you want to have just one glass of wine and save the rest for an other time.

I was apprehensive on purchasing this at first, but then I had to try it as I was sick of either trying down down a bottle of wine quickly or else putting the cork on backwards (it always swells up at the down end after popping it out). And after trying it I must say it works!

You get the "pump" and two corks with this. You open the wine, then put the new cork in the bottle, take the pump and push it down on the cork and while pushing down pump with your other hand. This takes all the air out of the bottle and secures the cork. You know when to stop as it gets harder and harder to pump then you hear a "tick-tick" sound and it's done.....the less wine in the bottle, the more you have to pump as there is more air to get out. When you go back to drink more wine, you push the lever on the cork and you'll hear a "whoosh" and you then pull the cork off.

Note:
1) You cannot use the corks without the pump. They will not stay on good and will not work.
2) When you get the corks and pump, wash them before using. Take the corks apart (two pieces each) and wash in hot soapy water.
3) Order a set of four extra corks as you'll probably be looking for more soon!

I owned a previous version of this product that somehow disappeared. The new version purchased this year "chirps" once the proper vacuum level is achieved. (How do it know?)

This is a great product for conserving the wine you didn't finish. Its easy to use, and very effective.

I realize that a 100% complete vacumn is not achived. However, it does remove excess air (try it on a plastic soda bottle; it sucks the bottle inward). Most importantly for me, my bottles don't have to have the cork pounded in so deep it is very difficult to take them out again. The reusable bottle stopper only adds a few milimeters to the length of the bottle. And, it is SO much easier to open and reclose bottles. Well worth the money!

The tool works as advertised, unfortunately we never leave an open bottle of wine around long enough to tell whether or not the tool actually keeps it fresh.

I have used this outfit for years and it works wonderfully well. If you buy the big 1.5 liter bottles of wine, you will save money and can keep it fresh with this item. Simple and effective. Takes a little pump, pump, pumping, but you can use the exercise. Hint: if you rub a tiny bit of oil (like canola, or some other light oil) inside the pump on occasion, it will work much smoother.

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, New Short Course in Wine,The

--Lynn Hoffman, author of New Short Course in Wine,The and bang BANG: A Novel from Kunati Books.

I'm really happy with this product. I'm the only one in the house who drinks wine, so I always talk myself out of opening a bottle because I'm afraid it will go bad before I get a chance to drink it all. The wine saver really seems to work. Now I don't hesitate to open a bottle of wine, even if I only want half a glass. I wish I had bought it years ago.

This little pump pumps the air out of an already opened bottle of wine so that it remains fresh. It's easy to use and keep clean, well worth the money.

Works as advertised, keeps vacuum and wine fresh for up to 1 week. After 1 week, poured a glass of wine and still had to wait about 15 minutes for the red to gain full body.

I've used the Wine Savers for years now. This new unit has a different type of stopper that previously. These are easier to clean than the older style as they separate into two pieces. I never had trouble with the older styles though as I only had to squeeze the perimeter of the stopper to open the valve and clean. The new pump does SEEM to me to be slower to build a vacuum with the new stoppers that I experience with the older pump that I still use as well. I'm not certain if the increased time is due to the new style stopper or to the pump. (Easy to check, but haven't yet.) I always recap and vacuum even between glasses of wine as I keep my wine in a wine cooler (electric) and that requires laying the bottles horizontal and a vacuum to prevent spillage. I would consider not having a wine vacuum system. My wine stays good for days, easily. If you enjoy good wine, these vacuum sets pay for themselves rapidly, that is unless you drink your bottles completely -- that may be next!!! I rate this as a 4 rather than a 5 due to the apparent slower time to creat a vacuum. Still beats the heck out of hooking up the Food Saver apparatus for the small task. Buy it and get extra stoppers if you have a house keeper. Mine thought the stoppers were disposable!!

I used to have a similar set before, but I gave it to someone else. I haven't used one since then because I cannot find one with the right price.
This set is made in quality and with good price. Highly recommend!

Read about this item in the wine column of the Wall Street Journal. Gave many as hoiday gifts for those who don't finish a bottle of wine at a sitting. Have tried ours for up to three days of holding wine and its great. A perfect hostess gift and everyone should have one for themselves if you want to hold wine for a few days. Have't tried it for long term but still recommend it 100%. Very easy to use as well. You can't go wrong at the price.

this gadget doesn't work that well. True, it takes some of the air out, maybe as much as half, but that still leaves half the oxygen IN, spoiling the wine at a slower rate--2-4 days at best instead of 1-2. NOT the two weeks Madeiline Miller quotes. To really preserve the wine, try the inert gas cans $9 for 120 shots, less than ten cents per use, and they will keep wine fresh for two weeks or more. They are what the restuarants in Napa and Sonoma are using. I do like the Vacu Vin canister sets though, they keep moisture out well.

No, it does not create a total vacuum in the bottle. But when you sqeeze the stopper to remove it and you hear the "swish" of air being sucked into the bottle, you know something of a vacuum has been created--otherwise the bottle wouldn't be acting like your "vaccum" cleaner.

I also think the opinion that this process harms some types of wines is pretty subjective. It's likely to be based on individual tastes as opposed to any objective factual findings.

What does this contraption do? It extends the life of the wine for a few hours. If you think it's going to keep your wine fresh for several days, you will be sorely disappointed. If you plug the bottle, pump like hell and put the leftover in the refrigerator, your wine should be good for overnight. Don't expect this to be a miracle product, however.

Newer wine making methods mean we get better quality wines that can be consumed younger than the wines of even 20 years ago. But wine still needs to be consumed pretty soon after pulling the cork. So, if you have a particularly good bottle you want to open and you know you can't drink it all by yourself, invite someone over to help you.

Simple to use, very affordable...and it actually works..very well I might add.

I liked it so much a bought a second one as a gift.

I was very pleased to see that the Vacu Vin works VERY easy - and keeps the wine stored very nicely. I had purchased another type of wine saver earlier in the year and it was very difficult to use and ended up breaking within 2 days, plus it was very expensive. The Vacu Vin is priced great and works very easy. A few quick "pumps" and the air is out and when you want to pour another glass of wine it is very easy to release the tab, pour and then pump it again, if needed. I am going to give the Vacu Vin as a gift with a bottle of wine to some of my friends for Christmas. I would definitely recommend this item.

I just received this item a few weeks ago and have only used it a few times. Once I open a bottle of wine, it usually takes 4 or 5 days to finish it. It is much easier to use this item rather than putting the original cork back in the bottle. For that it gets 4 stars. I do not notice any difference (better or worse) in taste of the wine after 3 or 4 days in the fridge. The item is very easy to use and only takes a few pulls to remove the air. The instructions are simple and straighforward.

We received the vacum wine saver as a gift 5 years ago and have been using it every week since. You will save money and good wine with it!

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The vacu vin wine saver works great, it keeps wine fresh in the refrigerator for weeks. Also it is very easy to use.

If you are a vine lover and would not wish to finish whole bottle of vine in a single day, this should help maintain the smooth (un-oxidised) taste of the vine over a period of 2 weeks (as it says in product description). The vacumm caps hold vacumm pretty nice. the only aspect of this product that concerned me was its price. I bought it for 20 dollars including shipping, whereas i feel, its worth 10 dollars (including shipping). Even the caps are pretty expensive. Other than that its useful to have, because at least i dont like throwing my favourite vine away after 48 hrs (approx. time after which your vine expires after you put in refridgerator). Even after you vacumm it, its a good idea to put in the refrigerator, as anything in refrigerator survives longer than at room temperature. Enjoy your vine!

Fantastic. I have been using Vacu Vin products for years now and love them so much I have been giving them as Christmas presents the last several years. The wine saver is easy to use and does a very fine job extracting the air from your bottle. The same "plunger" is used on the marinator and a coffee keeper. I have not found a better keeper for products that benefit from a vacuum.