sdelli
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I always use an Argon gas to top my carboys. But when drinking a bottle of wine that is not finished I have recently purchases one of those hand held vacuum pumps. It comes with a few of it's own stoppers and as you pump it draws the air out of the bottle and creates a vacuum. It is suppose to preserve the wine longer. My question for the scientific minds is we understand the process of laying a blanket of gas on the wine to protect it against oxygen. But does the vacuum method really do the same? Is all the oxygen really gone under a vacuum environment? If I had a real little man with a match sitting on a boat in that bottle of wine..... Would the match light? When I pump this device I can definitely smell the wine air coming out....
Sam
Sam