I'd like to buy something that allows me to drink wine without oxidizing the rest of the wine that remains in the container, ie that doesn't allow air in . I know that bag-in-box containers with a spout will do this. But I'd like to get a permenant one so that I could fill and refill from normal glass wine bottles. Does this exist?
How will you get the wine into it without introducing oxygen?
What I do is pour the wine that's left into a half bottle or split, just about up to the tippy top, and then cork it. I also put a paperclip alongside the cork so the air can escape as I put it in, then remove the paperclip. Works very well.
Jose
What's the difference between that and fill and use a vacu vin?
The ullage and the air pressure. IF you fill the bottle completely, you don't need a vac-u-vin, whose purpose is to remove air (thus reducing total oxygen content) since there won't be any to speak of. IF you don't fill the bottle completely, then even if you drop the pressure to half, you still have half the O2 left in the bottle to react with the (smaller amount of) wine. Then you do need the vac-u-vin, though as a side effect it may suck the volitailes out of the wine.
I've never done a good side-by-side test of this.
Jose
Works if you have fairly constant temperature.
you should drill a small hole in the center of the cork, fill the bottle to above the cork insertion level, beat the cork into the bottle, then put a drop of wax on the hole.
out out damned air.
Interesting. Might even try it. :)
Jose
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