Last evening I attended a Spanish wine tasting event at Café Taste (1330 Queen St. Toronto). I was participating in a single’s event put on by Toronto’s Meet Market Adventures.
As a single person, I frequently open a bottle of wine and drink just a glass or two. Over the years, I’ve experimented with different ways of saving the wine in open bottles. For the last couple years I’ve used the vacu vin stainless steel wine saver pump to remove air from the 
bottle to store it for another day. Unfortunately this method only keeps the wine for a day or two max. And, the emptier the bottle the less well it works.
I asked our Café Taste host, Jeremy Day (pictured below), if he had any other suggestions to preserve an open bottle of wine. He came up with the remarkably sensible suggestion of putting sterilized marbles into the bottle and then recorking. What a clever idea!
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