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Using Vintage Lock™

Vintage Lock™ is so easy to use!  When you uncork a bottle, all you have to do is connect the Vintage Lock™ to the air bag, put it in the bottle and start to pour.  Click on the "WineHead™ Video" Icon or read the steps below.

Step 1:

After removing the cork from the wine bottle, insert the Vintage Lock air bag stem into the stopper.

The Vintage Lock air bag comes packaged in a sleeve that makes it easy to insert the air bag into the bottle without your hands ever directly touching the air bag itself. 

Step 2:

Insert the Vintage Lock™ stopper and air bag and into the wine bottle.

Step 3:

Invert the wine bottle and press valve lever with thumb to dispense.

Parts
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Vintage Lock™ (patent pending) is a system that prevents wine from oxidizing due to exposure by air.  Below you will find a description of each of the components of the Vintage Lock™ system and see just how easy it is to use Vintage Lock™.

Stopper

The Vintage Lock™ stopper (left) has a thumb-operated valve on top and a fitting for the Vintage Lock™ bag on the bottom.  The bag and stopper are inserted as a unit into a wine bottle as soon as it is opened.  The stopper is made of polyethylene plastic and stainless steel.  Both are FDA approved materials and will not affect the taste of the wine.  A hole can be found on the side of the stopper that is the opening for the air duct that allows air to flow freely into the Vintage Lock™ air bag.

Air bag

The Vintage Lock™ bag (right) is an airtight disposable bag that traps all of the air, that enters a wine bottle when pouring, and keeps it away from the wine. This limits the amount of air in direct contact with the wine and results in reduced oxidation of the wine. The Vintage Lock™ bag is made of polyethylene, an FDA approved material, and taste tests have shown that the bag will not affect the taste of the wine. The Vintage Lock™ bag is packaged in a sleeve that makes it easy to insert into the bottle without directly touching the bag.

Stopper with bag connected

The Vintage Lock™ stopper and bag (pictured together at left) are easily connected by sliding the tube of the bag into the stopper.  Once together the bag is inserted into the wine bottle immediately after opening.  There is plenty of air space at the top of a newly opened bottle of wine to allow insertion of the Vintage Lock™ without overflowing.

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Using the Vintage Lock pump

Pump

The pump (right) is not used during normal operation of the Vintage Lock™ but is required to raise the wine level up to the stopper when air is present in the bottle.  The two most common reasons for air getting into the bottle are;

1) The Vintage Lock™ is inserted after a bottle of wine has been partially used.
2) The valve at the top of the Vintage Lock™ is pressed when the wine bottle is upright. 

The pump is then used to force air into the Vintage Lock™ bag until the volume of the bag displaces all of the air in the wine bottle and brings the level of the wine back up to the top of the bottle where it meets the bottom of the stopper.