'02 Bogle Phantom

[Kcwhippet]

Hey, Keith!!!

"i didn't like it as much the second night after putting half a bottle away with the vacuvin"

Maybe it's because the Vacu-Vin doesn't really do what they want you to think it does. If you can get into another paper's archives, check the article by Susan Hauser in the 12 December 1988 WSJ called Testing the Vacu-Vin, or the article in the 15 December 1994 Wine Spectator by Matt Kramer titled A Giant Sucking Sound - And That's All. Basically, the consensus is that the Vacu-Vin really doesn't work as advertised. In fact, Kramer had a professor in the Chemistry Department of Portland State University drill a hole in a bottle and attach a short hose with a vacuum gauge. Then he filled the bottle 2/3 full with wine and used the Vacu-Vin. In several tests, he wasn't able to achieve a vacuum of even 70% even with 20 full pumps, which is a bit more than they recommend. According to the gauge, the bottle lost 15% of the vacuum within 90 minutes. Within 2 hours 25% of the vacuum was gone - and remember it started at less than 70% of full vacuum. Within 12 hours, the vacuum was totally gone, and this was with a brand new Vacu-Vin. They tried the test with several Vacu-Vins and the results were pretty much the same with all of them. Moral of this story? Vacu-Vin DOESN'T suck. BTW, I use the Private Preserve gas - if there's ever anything left in the bottle.

[This message has been edited by Kcwhippet (edited 12-10-2005).]