| | |  | Kitchen Gadgets | Home » » Metrokane V1 World's First Vacuum Decanter | | | | | | | Product Promotions: | | | | | Description: | | The world's first vacuum decanter, the V1 allows wine lovers to improve the character of a red wine by aerating it, then vacuum preserve any wine that remains in the decanter. | | | Features: | |
• World's first vacuum decanter maintains wine character until next pouring
• Set features 52-ounce handblown crystal decanter
• Also includes stopper with vacuum gauge and hand pump
• Lead-free decanter eliminates worries about leaching into wine
• Wash decanter by hand; 5-year warranty on stopper and pump
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 13.0 inches | | Product Width:
| 7.0 inches | | Product Height:
| 7.0 inches | | Product Weight:
| 4.5 pounds | | Package Length:
| 13.6 inches | | Package Width:
| 9.6 inches | | Package Height:
| 7.9 inches | | Package Weight:
| 3.88 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 30 reviews |
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 RipcordFeb 21, 2010
I have had this Vacuum Decanter for several weeks and it is impossible to release the bottle after it is cacuumed down to the area as instructed. It took myself and a friend pver 30 minutes to release the vacuum in the decanter to get the wine out.I'm 72 years old but my friend is many years younger and much stronger. If I had not called him the wine would still be im the bottle. I wont go into everything we tried and I would not recommend this to anyone.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 This item does work.Dec 12, 2009
Let's just begin with this: I'm a very small woman with no arm muscle. I can still operate this. I can pump out enough vacuum to keep the wine from going bad quickly, and I did test it on wine and it did last! Letting the air in to open it was very easy as well. It also worked well as a regular decanter. My husband and I love wine but we cannot drink very much and we don't always have friends over, there are special wines we get every year that we'd like to just enjoy ourselves. This is just a great thing!
But I must say... the instruction manual is horrible, it simply does not make sense. You'd have to really figure it out yourself... really... Hence bad reviews people left because they cannot figure out details of how to use this.
My husband and I read through every bad review on this product and still bought this and went through the reviews again and found out why each person was having certain trouble and how it could be amended, etc.
Just remember to place the top properly before you pump (if you pump it wrong, the air will leak through). And be sure to let air IN before you try to open it (even if you're all muscles, it will be really hard to try to snap the top off when it's still vacuum inside). If yours don't hold vacuum very well, either the seal's faulty (ours isn't faulty so it's not the case for every metrokane decanter out there, so don't generalize, just your seal's faulty), or you're not doing it properly. Ours lasted for 2 weeks before we opened it (I don't know how long it would've lasted if I just left it since we drank it 2 weeks afterwards), and wine taste was just as when we vacuumed it. And my husband is very picky about particular wines and wine taste... (We don't just drink cheap wine that smells like vinegar and praise it's good or anything like that)
Also, you cannot make it 100% vacuum anyway, so there IS some air in there, and if you've already decanted your wine into it and let it sit 3~4 hours before you decided to cork it and vacuum it, of course the taste will be different than when you freshly decanted it! That's not the decanter's fault, but rather 3~4 hours of exposing it to the air after proper decanting process was done. Still, you can vacuum it up and use it a few days later for cooking your fish or meat, it holds up pretty well, if not up to par for drinking it straight.
 It works - keeps wine palatable even on warm summer daysJul 25, 2009
Yes, you should read the directions, but why wouldn't you. Pull the black pin and it only takes a few pumps. I forgot there was a good red in there and two days later gave it a try. It was judged to still be fine. I'm about to purchase another as a gift.
0 of 3 found the following review helpful:
Don't waste your moneyJun 20, 2009
Forget this product. Are you serious? 20 pumps to create a vacuum? And there is still development of condensation. I wish i could return the product and get my money back. Oh well, that's the last time I will pay attention to Amazon reviews, which I suspect are written by company representative of the product.
Metrokane V1 is great, once you figure out how to use it!Mar 02, 2009
My husband and I received this as a gift over a year ago, back in the days when we rarely had any wine left over, so we have just now started to use it. Roughly a month ago, we easily vacuum-sealed a half bottle of a nice Pinot. Then, having thrown the box away, we could not figure out how to UNseal it. Many fruitless and amusing attempts later, I finally googled it, using only the arcane "V1" on the vacuum pump. Success! Unsealing is as simple as PULLING the button, which apparently never occurred to us. Though the color has gone off slightly, the wine is perfectly drinkable --- not at its prime, but very drinkable. I am imagining that if we use the product as intended, and drink the vacuum-sealed wine within a week, there will be no noticeable deterioration at all.
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