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The article mentioned pouring an opened bottle into a half-sized (presumably glass) bottle, but I'm surprised it didn't suggest pouring the wine into a plastic PET bottle, and then squeezing all the air out.

It's a trick I've seen suggested elsewhere before, and one that I've used often myself — it certainly beats paying a hefty sum for a Coravin or VacuVin!

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Wine drinkers would be horrified with the sigh of any wine touching any plastic

Hikers would be horrified at the prospect of carrying a 750ml glass bottle any distance. Most of us, incidentally, develop a taste for whiskey if they don't have one already. It's a lot more weight efficient, and its drinkable at most any temperature sans ice or mixers.

Jim Beam even sells a 750ml plastic hiker bottle. If Beam isn't your thing, you can always use it as a decanter for your preferred poison once you've finished the OEM liquor.

Last time I was hill-walking in the UK I was very happy with little tins of wine I got from Marks & Spencers.

I've done this on hiking trips. Passing by a cellar door during the day, decanting into PET, then savouring it over the next few evenings.

> a plastic PET bottle

Quelle horreure! With all due respect, that sort of container will spoil the wine in other ways after a very short time.

How? PET is very non-reactive.

It's permeable to O2 though unfortunately

Downvoted for stating a fact. Ah well.

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