I love cooking with wine, but neither my husband nor I are big wine drinkers, and we rarely finish a bottle at a sitting. So when we saw the Houdini Wine Preserver on super sale last Black Friday, we were really excited.

The rubber stoppers seal the wine, and the vacuum pump easily pumps out excess air. It’s always fun to punk out the air and then tap the little valve just to hear the “Pssssssst” of the seal releasing (even though it means we have to just seal it up again).

The vacuum sealer allows me to use a bottle of wine over a course of a couple meals without destroying its integrity, and best of all it encourages me to buy and try more wine because I know the leftover won’t go to waste. I think ours is a slightly different (more deluxe) model than the one at Target, but it’s a great buy for everyone who likes wine and hates to see it go to waste.