Wine Saver Adapter - Use your Food Saver Vacuum Sealer to Keep Wine Fresh with Vacu Vin

Vacuum Seal Your Wine

I learned about the Vacu Vin® wine saver while working at a winery. We would pump the air out of our unfinished wine bottles every night in the tasting room so the wine wouldn't oxidize. In the presence of oxygen, wine will only last a day or two in the fridge, after which it starts to smell like nail polish remover - it's still plenty good for cooking though. The product is great. The kit consists of a rubber stopper check valve and a hand pump.

Use a Food Saver Vaccuum Pump

After I got into Sous Vide (sub-boiling, precision) cooking, I purchased a Food Saver® Vacuum Sealer. I came up with this adapter to the hose accessory so you can use the powerful electric vacuum pump of the Food Saver instead of the Vacu Vin hand pump.

1. Insert the plastic nipple at the end of the hose into the printed adapter until snug. Note: if you have the model pictured, remove the clear plastic liquid chamber accessory from the black and green hose connector.
2. Insert the Vacu Vin stopper in your wine bottle.
3. Hold the adapter firmly on top of the stopper and press the accessory button on your Food Saver. See pictures at the top of the page.
4. Optional quality check: inspect the vacuum quality with the Vacu Vin hand pump by pumping it on the stopper to see if it makes the poppet sound. If it does not, try again. If you're still having trouble, you may have a leak somewhere.

Sidenote: get yourself an adapter for mason jars and store your fresh coffee by vacuum! We use the vacuum pump nearly every day for this.

Printing Notes

Use a few extra perimeters and top and bottom layers to ensure the thing seals against atmospheric pressure. It doesn't have to hold for long, but better to be safe. The *.gcode and *.3mf files should take care of you. I used PET-G.

Remixing is allowed and encouraged!

Follow all manufacturers' instructions and cautions of the products mentioned here. Use adapter at your own risk. 

Drink responsibly - don't let your wine go to waste by not sealing it properly.