![]() This is obviously not a great answer, but it is the truth. First, and perhaps most importantly, is that we've yet to have a bottle break to force us to re-evaluate our choices. That being said, we take the risk and do it anyway- for a few times at least (dirt accumulates in the adhesive and the bags can get, shall we say, gross). Wine does not need a terribly large hole to make a big mess and odds are good you won't get a perfect seal if you attempt to reuse these products. ![]() If a bottle breaks, the level of leak protection you have will go down dramatically. The official answer is no- we do not recommend reusing Wine Skins if only because the adhesive seal no longer functions properly after the first use. To wind down this review, we need to address one additional question that often comes up with these products, and that is simply: can you reuse Wine Skins? So while some may look at the above logic and think they can get by with strategic wine packing on its own, we really have to ask- would you really leave that up to chance? To us, the sub-$3/bag price (at the time of writing) is a small price to pay for that extra level of protection, and when it comes to traveling with wine, we don't leave home without our Wine Skins- ever. From there, if an impact does occur the Wineskin becomes the last layer of defense from breaking, not the first. Excess clothes ensure bottles don't move around to a great degree outright, and strategic bottle placement away from edges and other bottles, with ample clothes in between, helps reduce impact points as well. Overall, this all comes together for a scenario where bottles are robustly protected. ![]() In fact, when one of our Puerto Rican rum bottles had an improperly sealed cap (naturally it was the one bottle we bought without a cork), the first adhesive seal in our Wine Skin ensured no rum escaped the bag at all! A win all around in our opinion. We've been using these products for several years now, bringing dozens upon dozens of bottles of wine home from Washington state, Portugal, and even rums from the Caribbean, and have yet to have a single bottle break when using this method (although we view it as an inevitability one day). We try and shoot for about 3″ minimum distance between edges and other bottles as a means to provide even more protection outright. We layer our clothes strategically so they form a cushion layer around the edges of the suitcase as well as in between the bottles themselves.We often travel with an extra carry-on suitcase to take any excess clothes that bottles may displace- this happens especially when we jam half a dozen bottles in a single suitcase.By using soft clothing to occupy otherwise empty space, general bottle movement is minimized significantly. ![]() Our suitcases should be so full of clothes that they're practically bursting.As such, we package our bottles in such a way to minimize the potential of these two scenarios occurring, namely with the following rules (illustrated in the above photo): ![]()
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