Metrokane V1 World's First Vacuum Decanter | 
| Brand: Metrokane
Category: Kitchen
Department: Cookware
List Price: $79.95
Buy New: $44.98
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Seller: Wine Essentials
Rating:  30 reviews
Sales Rank: 37167
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4.5
Dimensions (in): 13 x 7 x 7
MPN: 6500K
Model: 6500
UPC: 022578065007
EAN: 0022578065007
ASIN: B000I7VJZK
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| 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 |
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Product Description
Metrokane V1 Worlds First First Vacuum Decanter 6500
Amazon.com Review
While vacuum pumps that remove air from wine bottles have existed for some time, Metrokane now offers the world's first wine decanter with a vacuum device. Showing handsome contemporary styling, the handblown, 52-ounce crystal decanter holds and aerates a fine red wine before serving, then stores any leftover wine without fear of oxidation. This eliminates the need to funnel wine back into the bottle. To operate the vacuum, insert the special stopper into the decanter, position the pump unit on top, and pump until the easy-read gauge on the stopper indicates the proper amount of air is removed. What better gift for the wine connoisseur in your life? A word of caution: the vacuum stopper and pump are not suitable for just any decanter. This one is especially designed to handle the pressure of the pumping action. The crystalline glass is also lead-free, which means there are no worries about lead leaching into the stored wine. Metrokane covers the stopper and pump with a five-year warranty. Washing and drying the crystal decanter by hand will help keep it spotless and sparkling. --Ann Bieri From the Manufacturer | World's First Vacuum Decanter Wine experts agree that pouring a bottle of red wine into a decanter before serving can aerate the wine, improving its flavor notes and aroma. Until now, wine left in the decanter had to be funneled back into the bottle for recorking to prevent spoilage. Now, with the 52-ounce V1 vacuum decanter, you can decant your favorite red wine without fussing with a funnel. That's because the V1 is topped with a vacuum sealing device and pressure gauge. The V1 was designed by Ed Kilduff of Pollen Design, its shape inspired by the Apollo spaceships. Each decanter is individually handblown of the finest lead-free crystalline quartz and has a handsome shape despite its utilitarian purpose.  How to Use the V1 Vacuum Stopper and Pump: 1. Insert the round vacuum stopper assembly into the decanter. 2. Attach the vacuum pump to the top of the round vacuum stopper assembly. 3. Remove air with the manual vacuum pump until you reach the "red zone" on the vacuum gauge. The vacuum stopper will hold the vacuum for days, and your wine will be preserved for the next serving.  Important: The V1's stopper assembly is designed only for use with the crystal decanter provided. Other decanters are not designed for vacuum pressure and could crack. Why Decant Your Wine? Some people try to aerate a wine by simply uncorking it an hour or so before serving and leaving it to breathe in the bottle. However, the wine bottle's narrow opening does not allow much room for air to effectively penetrate the surface of the wine in the bottle. To aerate a wine most effectively, you should decant it. This means pouring the wine into a decanter or carafe. As you pour from the bottle, the wine picks up oxygen, which opens up or enhances both the flavor and aroma of most red wines. White wines may also benefit from decanting although the effect is less pronounced. Then, depending on the specific wine, you can either let the wine relax in the decanter or serve immediately. |
| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 1-5 of 30
 Ripcord February 21, 2010
Chuttist2 (Henderson, NV)
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.
 This item does work. December 12, 2009
iris
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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 days July 25, 2009
P. G. Fallon
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.
Don't waste your money June 20, 2009
R Kelly (Florida)
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
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! March 2, 2009
Ring Torrence Stafford (Gastonia, NC USA)
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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