Five ways to keep an opened bottle of wine fresh for three to four days
How do producers of beer, soft drinks and sparkling water make sure their products stay fresh and retain their flavor and bubbles? They use screw tops or metal stoppers to keep out the air. Air is the enemy and would oxidize these beverages causing them to lose flavor and effervescence.The same is true for wine, whether it's sparkling or still. So why use a cork to reseal your everyday wines when cork is slightly porous. Here are five inexpensive and easy ways to save your leftover wine:
- If you only had a glass or two of wine from the bottle, save the rest in a clean, metal-stoppered, large Grolsch beer bottle.
- If half the bottle has been consumed, pour the contents into a smaller bottle of wine - a half bottle - and fill it to the top which pushes out most of the air near the neck of the bottle. (So save a few half bottles for this purpose from now on.)
- If more than half the bottle was consumer, pour the wine into a small, clean, Perrier bottle with a metal screw cap.
- Use an aerosol can of nitrogen to provide a blanket of gas over the wine. No matter how much is left. Give three to four quick sprays into the opened wine bottle and leave it standing upright. Nitrogen is heavier than air so it creates a blanket over the wine to keep out oxygen. Each can of nitrogen gas can close about 100 bottles of wine. www.iwawine.com
- Vacu-Vin, a pocket-sized, hand-operated pump sucks out all the air in an opened wine bottle. However, when you have consumed about 2/3rds of a bottle it may take up to 15 pumps to get all the air out. (I prefer the other options.) www.vacuvin.nl
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