Dude,
In eliquid we are not dealing with volatile esters, flavanoids, polyphenols and the like that will evaporate as they will in an alcohol based product. Yes wine will oxidize when not "blanketed" by Argon, Nitrogen or any other inert gas, but no one, I repeat NO ONE is going to leave a '98 Chateauneuf du Pape half finished. You will savor the last drops of that fine wine that night . Wine blankets are a scam for wine snob wanna be's. Sorry, I'm not bashing you. The whole premise is just not applicable. Not with wine and not with eliquid. The oxidation rate in eliquid is so slow that you will have finished your bottle months before any appreciable degradation would have occurred.
Even steeping a Nicoticket CLS for 3 months will show NO appreciable level of nic degradation if stored in a relatively cool place. I believe you can ask anyone within the NT forum whether their juices lose flavor or gain flavor over a 3 month time frame and they will say the flavor is better and nothing but time has been lost!
I'm not a chemist nor do I play one on tv...I am a Chef and have dealt with wine in high end restaurants for nearly 30 years. I remember when (god I sound old) wine blankets were first introduced, they were a scam then and they still are. Frankly I'm shocked they are still around, but then people will buy anything.
In 2001, Frederic Brochet conducted two experiments at the University of Bordeaux.
In one experiment, he got 54 oenology (the study of wine tasting and wine making) undergraduates together and had them taste one glass of red wine and one glass of white wine. He had them describe each wine in as much detail as their expertise would allow. What he didn't tell them was both were the same wine. He just dyed the white one red. In the other experiment, he asked the experts to rate two different bottles of red wine. One was very expensive, the other was cheap. Again, he tricked them. This time he had put the cheap wine in both bottles. So what were the results?
The tasters in the first experiment, the one with the dyed wine, described the sorts of berries and grapes and tannins they could detect in the red wine just as if it really was red. Every single one, all 54, could not tell it was white. In the second experiment, the one with the switched labels, the subjects went on and on about the cheap wine in the expensive bottle. They called it complex and rounded. They called the same wine in the cheap bottle weak and flat.
These were students of wine that got scammed in a psych experiment...the average Joe in a restaurant or your flat can't tell if the wine they are drinking has been freshly opened or was left over from the night before.
Sorry, the post just got my hackles up for some reason and I'll get off my soapbox now...flame away if needed!
