How to keep an open bottle of wine FRESH!

We have all had this problem at least once or twice in our lives. You pour yourself a glass of wine and decide that you do not want to finish the rest of the bottle, but you want it to taste as fresh as it is today another day. How do you keep the rest of the bottle fresh? You do not want to pour it out. That would make Bacchus - the Roman God of wine and agriculture - so sad.

As soon as the wine is exposed to air, the wine begins to oxidize, which will continue to change the initial flavors and aromas. There are several methods and gadgets that you can use that will allow you to preserve - keep your wine fresh - to enjoy a few days later.

Outlined below are some wine preserving methods and gadgets that we wine lovers could use to save our delicious liquid nectar from spoiling by utilizing the low-end methods to the savviest gadgets that will help us preserve our leftover wine.

Wine Preserving Methods and Gadgets

1. Standard refrigerated method. Put the cork back in the bottle and place the wine in the fridge. Any wine stored in the fridge will last longer than if stored on the counter. This works for both red and white wine. Refrigeration slows down the process of oxidation of the wine.

2. Transfer Method. Transfer the remaining wine you have into a smaller half-bottle (375 ml) wine bottle and place the screw cap on it. The less empty space in the bottle, the less oxygen, the slower the rate of oxidation. 3. Remove the oxygen using the Vacu Vin method. This sucks out the air from the bottle by creating a partial vacuum in the bottle. The best pro tip is to dip the Vacu Vin stopper in water before inserting it in the wine bottle. This allows for the stopper to glide easily into the bottle and provides a better airtight seal in the bottle. Place the Vacu Vin pump on the stopper and continue pumping it under you hear a double click. This means that you have pumped out all the air that was in the bottle.

4. Use the Nitrogen method using Private Preserve. Nitrogen is heavier than oxygen. You spray a little bit of nitrogen into your bottle. The nitrogen gas will displace the oxygen from the bottle and creates a gas seal between the wine and the space left in the wine bottle.

5. Private Preserve and the fridge method. This method combines methods 1 and 3.

6. The Balloon method. This is using the gadget called an Air Cork. Stick the balloon into the bottle and inflate the balloon. This expands the balloon in the bottle creating a seal between the wine and the air found in the top of the bottle.

7. Coravin method. This is not exactly a preservation method. But it allows you to extract one glass at a time. It has a Teflon needle that pierces the cork and pumps the argon gas into the bottle then the pressure of the argon gas pushes wine back up through the needle into the glass. It is not exactly wine preservation because the wine has never been opened before. It is more of an extraction method.

Bacchus - the Roman God of wine and agriculture - was essentially a copy of the Greek god Dionysus. He was the god of agriculture and wine. He was the son of Jupiter (Zeus in Greek mythology). He wandered the earth, showing people how to grow vines and process the grapes for wine.