air pumps?

It does work, but not as well as the bottles of nitrogen spray that you use to exclude oxygen from the bottle.

I'm going to give the Pek Supremo system a try. You might take a look at it. I will post my thoughts on in after I've used it for a while.

I'm currently using the Metrokane hand pump (

) which I think is the best of the pumps. It creates a pretty impressive vacuum in the bottle. I drink mostly cabs and merlots, and they appear to last just fine for 3 days using this device.

I hope this helps.

Stephen

I have one, and it seems to work fairly well. Better, though, is to have friends help you finish the bottles the same evening.

Sounds like Vac-U-Wine. My favorite, and does quite well is tests I have seen.

One really nice aspect of the VacUvin-type device, however, is that you can travel with it. On the road, a pump and a few stoppers will go quite a ways toward keeping the wine "better" for a few days. I use these all of the time, and, coupled with refrigerator storage of opened bottles of both white and red, I get about 3-5 days of useful life from a bottle. I will not claim that the bottles (actually the wine IN those bottles) is as good as when first opened, but it will extend the life some. While I've got several nitrogen purge units, I have basically retired them, even the big unit, that cost me far too much - but it does look impressive with the hoses, the cylinders, etc.

Hunt