As we do not normally drink a whole bottle of wine in one session, I like to transfer the leftover wine to a suitably sized crown topped bottle (such as the green Heineken beer bottles) to minimize oxidation, until we drink it in the next couple of days. I use very good quality plastic crown tops which I bought in England 30 years ago. Unfortunately I only have a few left and would like to buy some more but here in Malta I can only find cheap ones which do not seal very well. Can anybody suggest possible suppliers please. Timmy Zammit (from the island of Malta, 60 miles south of Sicily)
Crown Tops for Leftover Wine
Dec 30, 2004
3 Replies
I don't know about the crown tops but I often move half of a bottle to a split and then use a taster corks. They are fairly cheap and if I am going to drink the rest in a weak or so I reuse them.
Ray
If you are only saving the wine for a couple days I would not think that you need to use high quality caps. I leave half finished bottles on the counter for a few days all the time and I usually can never tell a difference unless it's been left for two weeks or something.
But that's just me.
David
Perhpas more useful would be a small vacuum pump.
We have the type at
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(although this wouldn't be a practical vender for you :)
Before we got it, we would notice the oxidation even the next day. With one of these, it's fresher after two weeks (we managed to forget about one) than it would have been the next day.
The vacuum generated in the pump pulls apart the soft grey rubber stopper to pull air out.
hawk
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