Wine recorking apparatus and method

A method of recorking an aged wine in a bottle sealed with a first cork, comprising the steps of:

• providing a wine bottle, sealed with a first cork and containing an aged wine, within a closable compartment which segregates a first volume within said compartment from a second volume outside said compartment;
• sealing said sealed wine bottle within said closable compartment;
• displacing oxygen from said first volume to a predetermined level by use of an inert gas that is heavier than air;
• extracting said first cork from said wine bottle, sealed within said closable compartment, while said oxygen is displaced;
• and
• inserting a second cork into said wine bottle, sealed within said closable compartment, while said oxygen is displaced.

A method for recorking wine within a wine bottle sealed with a cork, comprising the steps of:

• adding the sealed wine bottle to an air-tight enclosure having a sealable door, an upwardly disposed aperture for venting oxygen from within said enclosure and a downwardly disposed aperture for introduction of an inert gas that is heavier than air;
• sealing the wine bottle within said enclosure;
• displacing oxygen within said enclosure by introducing a heavier than air gas to said enclosure through said downwardly disposed aperature;
• using an oxygen meter to measure and indicate an oxygen concentration within said enclosure;
• extracting the cork from the wine bottle when said oxygen meter indicates that said oxygen concentration is less than a predetermined value;
• and
• recorking the wine bottle with a second cork when the wine bottle is sealed within said enclosure and said oxygen concentration is less than said predetermined value.