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Amazon.com Review
You've spent an entertaining evening over several bottles of wine, but now you have a bunch of half-empty bottles sitting in the kitchen. What to do? Enjoy them to the end with the Metrokane Save-the-Wine vacuum pump, which removes the air from opened wine bottles to preserve the wine taste and bouquet. Without the vacuum seal, the oxygen-exposed wine will stale quickly, dramatically affecting the flavor. This ergonomically designed pump is simple to use, and it will let you drink the wine up to two weeks later with few ill effects. The pump comes with two pushbutton stoppers, each of which seals the vacuum tightly. The stoppers also release the vacuum at the touch of a button. --Rivers Janssen
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The Metrokane Houdini wine preserver allows bottles to be stored horizontally. The preserver includes two pushbutton stoppers which holds the vacuum seal for days.
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40 of 40 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
It sucks, but it also blows a little,
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This review is from: Metrokane Houdini Wine Preserver (Kitchen)
I bought this item as a resplacement for another that had lasted several years before succumbing to the demise to which all devices with cheesy plastic parts eventully succumb. Fortunately, the Swissair I replaced was for use both with wine (suck out the air) and bubbly (pump air into the chamber), and the busted bit was stuck in the wine position, which was fine for 99% of its service.
Like a dummy, I got the Metrokane and chucked the Swissair in one irreversable transaction. The Metrokane is servicable. It does what it purports to do: It sucks the air out of the bottle. If that were the whole story, I would undoubtedly give this product a 5. Alas, the value of the vacuum is only as good as the staying power of the vaccum, and that requires that the stopper provide a robust seal. To put it simply: The seal seems to be the weak link in this system. If I pump the bottle, and immediately let out the seal, I get a satisfying hiss, indicating a positive seal. If I pump the bottle and wait a day, the hiss is a little less satisfying, indicating a slow leak. One might expect the day-later hiss to be diminished for other reasons (whatever it is that goes on inside the open bottle), but in comparison to the swissair, the next-day hiss is too differnt from the immediate release. I have found if I wet the stopper, that helps, and the resulting seal can last a few days with very slow loss. So, I gave the product a 4 -- it works, but not as well as what it replaced, and I think that issue is with the stopper, not the pump.
36 of 37 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
What you'd expect from the maker of the Rabbit!,
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This review is from: Metrokane Houdini Wine Preserver (Kitchen)
I've had enough half-bottles of wine starting to turn vinegar only one day after I opened them. I've tried enough different kinds of stoppers trying to prevent it.FINALLY -- THIS ONE WORKS!!! I bought this because it came inexpensively with my Rabbit corkscrew (which is also wonderful) and figured it was worth trying. WOW was it ever! Just put the stopper on the bottle, put the little hand pump on the stopper and give it a couple of pumps, and the wine is good to keep! On the top of each stopper is a small "vacuum relief valve" -- just touch that to the side to let air back in the bottle to equalize the pressure, and the stopper comes out easily. It has worked well for a couple days at a time. I haven't tried it for longer.
14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Worked okay. Broke quickly.,
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This review is from: Metrokane Houdini Wine Preserver (Kitchen)
This product worked fairly well. About 80% of the time the bottles held their vacuum. The other 20%, well... the tops made a good cork. Unfortunately, after only about 20 uses, the pump broke while I was using it. The pressure from the vacuum pulled the plunger away from the handle. Since this piece in internal, there's no way to fix it, so it's basically trash now.
So... 4 points for how well it worked, but minus two for breaking.
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