Vacuvin sucks!

[tomstevenson]

Has this got any attention? I tried to get a debate going on the Vacuvin under "How to ruin a good wine", but no one went for it. Don't you have these gadgets over there? They sell like hot-cakes over here and they are the worst thing ever for keeping wine. Somebody should sue the company because it does precisely the opposite to what it is sold for. It sucks all the aromatics out of a red wine, so you end up with something dull, and it sucks out the CO2 in a white wine and all white wines depend on minute quantities of that to keep them fresh and crips, although the fuller and fatter the style, the less there will be. Take it away and the wine becomes flat and lifeless. They are, however, brilliant for "correcting" refermented reds. Just pump away and see the bubbles go! I got this idea when many years ago they first came onto the market and mine had been hanging around in a drawer unused. We don't have much need for keeping part-used bottles of wine in the Stevenson household, hence the unused Vacuvin, but after a dinner party I had some vintage Krug left over. I was obviously under the influence because it was only as I was pumping away, seeing the Krug turn into a bottle of bubbles, that I realised that sparkling wine is the last thing these devices should be used for!