Customer Reviews

Platypus Platy Preserve Wine Preserver, 800ml

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great product, easy to use and carry. Does exactly what the name implies.. preserves wine! I am definitely not afraid to transfer a great bottle to the Platy, to use anywhere over time and still have the same great taste and nose.

In short, it works and it doesn't leak at all. I haven't had the courage to put it into my suitcase yet when flying overseas. I called customer/technical support and they were wishy-washy on this issue.

SUGGESTION. Use it with a liquid soap/shampoo cap and then you can REALLY suck the air out of it after every use.

We came to find the PlatyPreseve bags when we decided to take a home wine course and had to open 3 or 4 pricey bottles at one time. The problem is obvious - not that we didn't want to drink it all, lol. So after using these for a year, here's what we think:

1. The bags are BPA safe and very sturdy. They seal well and are easy to clean. BTW, the instructions say "no soap" for good reason. Use soap and you may have an aftertaste if you don't rinse them repeatedly.

This is no problem because the material used is non-staining, semi-stiff and doesn't seem to absorb wine or color. We always wash them right after we finish the wine - just fill two or three times with fresh water, agitate, pour out, and leave them in the dishrack to drain, cap down. Works well.

2. They seal well. There is no need to "crank down" the caps, they seal reliably by just snugging them down lightly.

3. They pour safely and easily. One poster had trouble pouring wine, but it's actually easy. Just support the bag in one hand, just under the cap with the other. The bag is semi-rigid and this works every time. Takes two hands, that's all. You can't pour with one hand.

4. Filling is best done with a small funnel, but in a pinch you can fill the bag without spillage if you use the same technique as for pouring, except this time the bottom corner of the bag is supported by the table, and the top with one hand. Of course the other hand holds and pours from the wine bottle.

Just lightly support the opening of the wine bottle on the bag opening, with a slight overlap. The bag is supported, and you simply pour slowly.

5. One problem you may have is expelling the air when there is not much wine left in the bag. Platy describes a technique, and we do it this way. Bag sideways, cap up and screwed on loosely (to let air out). Push the sideways bag, sideways against a flat vertical surface with the flat of your hand, applying pressure first to the bottom of the bag, then forcing the wine up toward the opening.

When the wine has almost filled the entire opening, then just use your other hand to snug the cap, and voila! You may spill a drop or two, but not ususally and this removes all the air, or nearly so.

Bottom line: a lovely, effective system. We've tossed these bags into our cooler for the beach, in the fridge for extended storage, etc. Have dropped a few from chest height. They are indescructable. Oh, and we like that they are clear, but still number them so we can remember what wine is in which bag.

Great product. I see them for $8 to $10 each, $27 to 29 for four. We got four.

I am having no trouble at all filling this fabulous little invention. By holding a funnel and the platy bottle with one hand, simply pour wine with the other. Wine boxes have that great no-air feature, but their quality is not very high. This little wine preserver fits one of your own bottles of wine, whether or not you plan to picnic with it! Opening a bottle just to drink one glass is doable, and the quality lasts for days (so far haven't tested it past 2).

We drink our fair amount of red wine. *Occasionally*, there might be some left over! Red wine does not keep once it is opened. This 'platy' allows you to store the wine by squeezing the air out of the bag. I have used this on occasion over the last 6 months. It really works. (I poured a lot of red wine down the drain before!)

works very well and adds no after taste. very easy to clean but I usually store it with water or just keep it filled with wine.

I read the reviews and bought four of these. The Platy Preserve does indeed preserve wine. It also wastes a lot of wine. Consider the problem of pouring a bottle of wine from one bottle to the other and one of the bottles is soft and collapsible. The opening of the Platy is much too small. If the Platy Preserve had a cap opening larger than a wine bottle top I could put the Platy over the top of the wine bottle and pour. You have to have a funnel to transfer the wine without spillage. That means the portability problem just got much worse. The Platy Preserve is also difficult to pour without spilling. It has no handle and if you squeeze it you have wine everywere. I no longer allow company to pour their own wine from this container. Cleaning the Platy Preserve is a problem with the small cap opening. I recommend you use Efferdent tablets to clean the Platy preserve. If you have the slightest remains of old wine the new wine you add will go bad in hours. Many people use Efferdent to clean reusable water bottles; it cleans slime out quickly.

I hope this product is redesigned soon. It is a great idea.

Came as advertised. Great product! We love our wine breaks on day and overnight hikes! Packs just like a water bag in any pack. Keeps the air away from our vino!

I just got done sampling a small serving of red wine I stored in a new Platypus wine bag 3 days ago. The wine didn't taste *exactly* the same as it did right out of the bottle, but it DID taste like it came out of a bottle that had been open for a half hour or so. For what I paid for these bags, I don't think I could have gotten a more effective wine preservation system. Leakage shouldn't be much of a problem; the bag's designed to stand up on a fridge or wine-cellar shelf when it's at least partially filled. The only advice I'd give is to have a decent funnel on hand when filling it.

I re-purposed an airless one-way squeeze valve with flip top cover from an Ikea beet syrup bottle (found in Ikea just past checkout at the foods area), which screws on to fit PERFECTLY.

One attempts to drink a glass of wine each night per doctor's orders yet feels bad about wasting the rest of the bottle (preservation gas and vac-pumps help only so much) and decent box wine is near impossible to find in the states.

Being a DIY gal, one of my many hydration camelbak/platypus/hydro packs was about to be sacrificed... or I'd have to buy a crap box wine and then do some monkeying to make my own reusable wine box to fill with decent wine. The Platypus Platy Wine Preserver is much better than either DIY solution (particularly now that I've switched out the simple screw top for a one-way flow food safe squeeze valve). The platy is compact and convenient holding a large wine bottle perfectly and it stands on it's own.

You will want to stop by an Ikea or have a friend mail you the top from a beet syrup as it makes this wine preserver a perfect solution.