Resealing a wine bottle can be a good tip for storing wine once it’s been opened. Indeed, one of the biggest dangers for wine is its oxidation (except for oxidative wines). So, by resealing your wine, you’ll be able to store it better. In this article, you’ll discover how to reseal a wine bottle.
Resealing a wine bottle with its cork
There’s a simple trick for resealing a bottle with its own cork. However, it isn’t an optimal technique. Indeed, it can slightly alter the quality of the wine. To do this, dip the cork in a pot of boiling water for 10 minutes. Then take the cork out of the pot and reseal your bottle. You can, naturally, use a cloth to avoid burning yourself. And there you go, you’ve just resealed your wine bottle. Nevertheless, this technique isn’t optimal. Indeed, as we’ve already mentioned, the enemy of wine storage is oxygen. Just because you’ve resealed your wine bottle doesn’t mean the liquid isn’t in contact with oxygen. Quite the opposite, you’ve just trapped oxygen inside your bottle. So, to store your wine better, I advise you to reseal your bottle with a vacuum pump system.
Resealing a wine bottle with a vacuum pump
A vacuum pump for wine lets you, as the name suggests, empty the bottle of its oxygen. So you can reseal it without any problem and therefore store the wine better. Very conveniently, with a vacuum pump, you place a dedicated stopper on the neck of the bottle. You can then pump out the oxygen inside and thus store your wine bottle better.
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