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wrote:
As we do not normally drink a whole bottle of wine in one session, I
like to transfer the leftover wine to a suitably sized crown topped
bottle (such as the green Heineken beer bottles) to minimize oxidation,
until we drink it in the next couple of days. I use very good quality
plastic crown tops which I bought in England 30 years ago.
Unfortunately I only have a few left and would like to buy some more
but here in Malta I can only find cheap ones which do not seal very
well. Can anybody suggest possible suppliers please.
Timmy Zammit (from the island of Malta, 60 miles south of Sicily)

Perhpas more useful would be a small vacuum pump.

We have the type at http://www.thegrape.net/browse.cfm/4,9264.htm
(although this wouldn't be a practical vender for you

Before we got it, we would notice the oxidation even the next day. With
one of these, it's fresher after two weeks (we managed to forget about
one) than it would have been the next day.

The vacuum generated in the pump pulls apart the soft grey rubber
stopper to pull air out.

hawk


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