By Enjoying Wine from Seattle, WA on 9/4/2008

Some days my wife and I don't want to have the same wine, or we do and a whole bottle is too much, so what is a wine drinker to do? I've tried putting half of the wine in a bottle into a 375mL bottle, I've tried Private Preserve spray, and I've tried vacuum tops. Winekeeper is the first system I've tried that actually does what it says - several days later the wine tastes just like it came from a freshly opened bottle.

If you are spending any significant amount of money on your wine, add up how much money is wasted when a good bottle goes unfinished and this product suddenly looks affordable.

Note: I took the extension tube off the dispenser because I just take the spray top off and pour the wine into a glass when I retrieve the bottle from storage and it's less than half full.

By wino271 from Princeton NJ on 6/6/2008

I have been drinking wine with my meals for about 45 years. I do not like or drink the 14% - 15% red wines from California, Spain, Rhone etc. Those wines are so high in alcohol that it must be considered a preservative. I prefer the classic old world style of Medoc, Piedmont or Tuscany. Those wines will not keep and be decent the second day if you allow any air to enter the bottle. The vacuum pumps are a waste of time. Forget about the looks of the Winekeeper. It is completely beside the point. The device works and is incredibly cheap for what it does. I pull the cork on a nice Bordeaux (say $15) immediately insert the stopper, hook up the nitrogen bottle, dispense 1/3 of the bottle into a decanter, wait 1/2 hour and have perfect Bordeaux with my dinner. I do the same the next night. The third night I don't use the nitrogen. The wine keeps for 3-4 days and I am getting about 15 bottles + useage for each nitrogen bottle. Fabulous product for someone who wants to drink good wine 6-8 oz at a time.

I will never wait again for friends coming home to open a good wine bottle, with Winekeeper the wine will be in the same conditions for 4 o 5 days after opening. The only thing I don´t like: The nitrogen bottle will be empty with 10 or 12 bottles.