https://sommo.app/tags/wine-preservation/Recent content in Wine Preservation on Sommo — AI Wine Scanner, WSET Prep & Wine Journal AppHugoen-USSommoFri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://sommo.app/blog/how-to-keep-wine-fresh-after-opening/Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://sommo.app/blog/how-to-keep-wine-fresh-after-opening/<p>A wine bottle has 750 ml in it. A standard glass holds 150 ml. The math is unforgiving: most bottles are not finished in one sitting. The question is whether the rest of the wine in front of you is something you will look forward to tomorrow, or something you pour down the sink.</p> <p>Most home wine drinkers lose more money to oxidised half-bottles than to any other single inefficiency. A $30 bottle, half-finished and left on the counter overnight, can be undrinkable by lunch the next day. The good news is that wine preservation is one of the better-understood areas of wine chemistry, and the solutions range from free (with the right technique) to genuinely effective (with the right tools). This guide ranks the seven main methods, tested across multiple wine styles, by how long each one actually keeps wine drinkable.</p>https://sommo.app/blog/how-to-recork-wine-bottle/Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://sommo.app/blog/how-to-recork-wine-bottle/<p>Opening a wine bottle is easy. Closing it again is the part nobody teaches you. You pour two glasses, set the bottle aside, and then look at the cork, which has somehow doubled in size and refuses to slide back in. Force it and you damage the cork. Leave the bottle open and the wine flattens within hours. There is a right way to recork a bottle, and there are several wrong ways. This guide covers all of them, plus what to use when the original cork is genuinely beyond saving.</p>