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SoWine Bar Preserves Your Open Bottle For Up to 10 Days
Posted by Sean Fallon at 9:20 AM on July 16, 2008
If popping open a box of Franzia and drinking until you pass out is your idea of a sophisticated evening, you will have no use for the SoWine Bar. Believe it or not, there are people out there that prefer to enjoy a bottle of wine over an extended period of time. SoWine allows those users to store two bottles, bring them to the correct drinking temperature, and keep them fresh when opened for up to 10 days (according to the manufacturer) using two separate air-tight refrigerated storage units. Most of the other preservation methods out there only get you an extra few days, so this represents a significant improvement. SoWine is available for around US$600. [SoWine and Around Wine via Gizmag]
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FilthyHarry
Posted 10:20 AM 16/7/08
What a waste of money. If you have open wine bottles that last more than ten days, then you don't care enough about wine or drink enough wine to want this product.
FilthyHarry
humorbot
Posted 10:17 AM 16/7/08
Get thee to Cost Plus or Pier One or similar and buy some glass bottles of varying sizes. Pour your leftover (leftover? drink with friends, people) wine into one of your new bottles. Pick a size that you can fill up to the neck. Thus, virtually no space for air to occupy. Then use the Vac-u-Vin on the new bottle. In my experience, works better than either the Vac-u-Vin alone or the nitro cans.
humorbot
Hiphopopotamus
Posted 9:53 AM 16/7/08
Sadly, the most effective wine saving method is the least gadgety option out there...
[www.amazon.com]
It's just a bottle of inert gases that are denser than oxygen, displacing air in the bottle and keeping it from contacting the wine - No oxidation, no sour wine...
Hiphopopotamus
DeadWriter
Posted 9:48 AM 16/7/08
What good is this, it doesn't fit wine jugs or wine boxes.
DeadWriter
gdam78
Posted 9:42 AM 16/7/08
wine goes bad?! hmmm, i need to call my sister then
gdam78
marc_wtih_a_c
Posted 9:36 AM 16/7/08
so booze like wine goes bad huh....that explains a lot.
is it rude to ask for the number of the nurse who just pumped your stomach?
marc_wtih_a_c
newgalactic
Posted 9:25 AM 16/7/08
[www.amazon.com]
$9.99
newgalactic
iCarmen 2.0-Yellow Free Edition!
Posted 11:07 AM 16/7/08
Who the fuck keeps a bottle of wine open for 10 days? I can try to keep it full and open for about ehh 3 hours but by then the bottles gone and so are my clothes.
iCarmen 2.0-Yellow Free Edition!
Zlevee
Posted 11:36 AM 16/7/08
Well if you're into your second bottle and you can't finish it 'cause you're about to get some drunk lovin', then OK. But is this really any better than those vacuum pumps used with the little rubber stoppers? Those always worked fine for me, and cost like 1% the cost of this.
Zlevee
strider_mt2k
Posted 11:30 AM 16/7/08
Day 11 you are SO screwed.
strider_mt2k
Savutano
Posted 12:09 PM 16/7/08
@Savutano:
you noobs need to watch "wine library tv" over at REVISION3.COM
Savutano
Savutano
Posted 12:08 PM 16/7/08
Wine doesn't actually go bad when exposed to air, it actually helps it, it will also taste better. DUH
Savutano
Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy!
Posted 12:42 PM 16/7/08
As a general rule of mine, open bottles of wine have dry bottoms in 10 minutes.
Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy!
Mandatory_Field
Posted 1:06 PM 16/7/08
@Savutano: To be oxygenated, yes. To be oxydized, no.
Mandatory_Field
DaSmith
Posted 6:08 PM 16/7/08
What the hell? Just drink it faster! That's the solution.
DaSmith
MACPollo
Posted 8:16 PM 16/7/08
I seldom drink wine alone, and to be honest, half a bottle is not much... I would even say one full bottle, which is roughly equivalent in alcohol contents to 4-5 beers.
MACPollo
Numerous
Posted 11:17 PM 16/7/08
Ha! Open bottles needing to be kept? Not in my home, thanks.
1. Open wine
2. Drink wine
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Zlevee
Posted 1:09 AM 17/7/08
@Savutano: a little air for a short time yes. Over a long time, no.
Zlevee
nutbastard
Posted 1:43 AM 17/7/08
Impossible - i don't care how airtight this thing is, it's still full of oxygen, your wine is still going to turn to swill.
Hiphopopotamus has it right - i've been contemplating borrowing some nitrogen from my work.
nutbastard
rudolphdude
Posted 2:10 AM 17/7/08
I need the opposite. I need a contraption that holds the wine in for 10 days. locks me away from my bottle downing tendencies.
Needless to say this particular machine would not be used in my apartment.
rudolphdude
Numerous
Posted 6:16 AM 17/7/08
@rudolphdude: They make little puzzles that hold wine bottles. You have to get a ball off a string or release a peg, something like that, then you can get to the wine. Of course, I think they are made of wood...
"Get the handsaw!"
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