Let the pump dry and apply a little Vaseline or similar grease on the inside of the pump and the pump works just fine again. Please note: never put your pump in the dishwasher or submerge it in water! After a while the grease that makes your pump work smoothly can wear off. You can apply a little Vaseline or similar grease on the inside of the pump and the pump works just fine again. How to test if your pump is creating a vacuum or not? You can easily test this by trying the pump on your hand.
If you feel the vacuum, and the pump is not creating the click, the click function is probably broken. Do you use the Wine Saver at a location that is at high-altitude?
The ambient pressure at your location might be very low. In that case, the pump may not be able to achieve the necessary vacuum pressure for the click to operate.
Please fill out the contact form and indicate the exact problem. The Wine Master Corkscrew is one of the products we sold in the past. Unfortunately we stopped selling and producing it over 10 years ago.
Discover our current Wine Openers here. When the levers that clamp the bottle are squeezed together an internal mechanism is released after which you can pull the cork. Try harder, if you do not squeeze the levers firmly enough, the internal mechanism is not released. Please fill out the contact form and state clearly which parts you like to purchase, for what kind of product and in what country you are living.
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Frequently asked questions Check below frequently asked questions by our customers. General information. I'm pretty picky and will drink a wine a day after I've opened it, but if it's older than that I rarely enjoy it. My folks regularly keep their wine sealed with a Vacu Vin for a week, but to me most wines taste pretty off by then, with or without it. A magazine a while ago -- not sure if it was Bon Appetit, Gourmet, or something else -- did an unscientific test of various wine sealers including the argon sprays, etc, and claimed they got the best results from using an empty plastic water bottle, pouring in the wine, and squeezing the extra air out before capping tightly.
I've been meaning to try it but haven't gotten around to it. My luck with these items tends to depend on how well the bottle "seals". If you hear a hissing sound once you complete pumping its not going to do much good. I'm sure this is a good idea I can just hear the crackling of the bottle when I re-open it, and see red wine splatter all over my wall paper.
Yeah, you try it, and let us know how it worked out! Theoretically, the expanding bottle will suck in air, not spray out wine. Still, plastic tastes like plastic. My own solution is to keep around a couple of clean, empty half-bottles and some stopper-corks.
But then I know I usually drink about a half-bottle at a sitting, so it may not quite work for others. My experience mirrors Mark's.
For younger or more complex reds the Vacu Vin seems to have the effect of extending the decant for a couple of days. Beyond that it seems to be consistent with the aging potential: the bigger or more age-able stuff holds up but the more ephemeral wine Beaujolais, pinot seems to lose flavor.
Either way the wine doesn't go 'bad' for at least a week. Used on whites I think the technology stretches drinking time out to half-life increments! Yuk, I don't even buy packaged cookies or crackers that are in plastic containers, because all I taste is the plastic. That is good, however, because I like how I can ignore most of the cookie isle.
I really like my Vacu Vin Wouldn't the Vacu Vin also pump out some of the quality of the wine? How about these wine- in- the bag things I see? What are they about? The bag part makes sense to me--why don't they put all wine in a bag? Are they cheaper than wine in the bottle? How do they compare to wine in the jug? RE: "water bottle" storage of leftover wine. Many of the comments on this thread have been from those who have never used this storage technique.
I have been using plastic bottles for years and have found that it beats all others on two counts 1 by squeezing all of the air out of the bottle, no oxygen, therefore no oxidation, and 2 its free. Vac-u-Vins and other wine systems other than sealed nitrogen systems always leave some oxygen in the bottle. Vac-u-Vin doesn't even come close to creating a perfect vacuum. If you know that you're going to consume only half of a bottle of your favorite vintage, immediately after uncorking, pour half of the wine into the water bottle, squeeze all of the air out, and seal.
This will minimize the time that the wine comes in contact with oxygen. I used them myself when I first started drinking wine. I liked how it felt like I was really doing something to help my wine last, and there was often a satisfying pop when I would take the stopper off. It seems widely accepted that while they might form a good seal and remove some of the air in the headspace initially, they don't remove all of the oxygen, and they usually leak.
Of course, most wines will taste relatively flat after being open for a day. But there are some things you can do to give leftover wine a little extra life: putting it in the refrigerator both reds and whites , using an inert gas like argon or transferring to a smaller bottle to limit its oxygen exposure. Mar 31, Dear Dr.
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