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11-30-2004, 06:47 PM
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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Is this the best/easiest wine opener on the market? I want to get it as a gift for someone and it looks easy to use. Anyone have a bad experience with it? Is there something better? (Yez, I know it's expensive.)
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I have one in that style and like it and find it very easy to use. A friend just got one in that style and thinks it's much, much easier to use than the kind where the arms go up as you twist the screw into the cork, and then you push them down to pull out the cork.
I have found with mine (don't know what brand it is) that it is more difficult to use with plastic corks than on cork corks. I don't think I've used any other type of corkscrew on a plastic cork, though, so that may be just generally true of plastic corks.
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11-30-2004, 06:48 PM
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Question.
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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Is this the best/easiest wine opener on the market? I want to get it as a gift for someone and it looks easy to use. Anyone have a bad experience with it? Is there something better? (Yez, I know it's expensive.)
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I've had several of this basic design over the years, and the first one was the best. There's something weird about the newer ones, and it's hard to get the leverage right. You have to lower the bottle below countertop height in order to open them.
I have the Rabbit* and it's OK. Not better than others, but not the best I've ever used. The problem is you sort of have to try them out in order to get the proper feel, and you can't do that over Amazon.
*and the other Rabbit, but that's not relevant here. I don't take corkscrews to bed, except for the express purpose of opening a bottle of wine. Now I'm having flashbacks of True Romance. BTW, I had an excellent chocolate port the other night.
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11-30-2004, 06:48 PM
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Question.
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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Is this the best/easiest wine opener on the market? I want to get it as a gift for someone and it looks easy to use. Anyone have a bad experience with it? Is there something better? (Yez, I know it's expensive.)
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who else was distracted from the question by the phallic shape on the left hand side? the small one with the giant head. |
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11-30-2004, 06:53 PM
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#3634
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Originally posted by notcasesensitive
who else was distracted from the question by the phallic shape on the left hand side? the small one with the giant head.
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I just want to be sure you are aware that it's only proportionately giant.
I was slightly distracted by the fish -- I thought TM might have been trying to get us all to join his church.
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11-30-2004, 06:53 PM
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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
*and the other Rabbit, but that's not relevant here. I don't take corkscrews to bed, except for the express purpose of opening a bottle of wine. Now I'm having flashbacks of True Romance. BTW, I had an excellent chocolate port the other night.
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Chocolate port? That sounds wonderful. I didn't know there was such a thing.
My favorite corkscrew is a simple, cheap one where the arms don't go up as you turn it into the cork -- you just keep turning and the cork moves up. It's two pieces, one shaped like a T, and it goes into a hole in the bottom of an upside-down U. The legs of the U fit around the side of the bottle, obviously. It's very easy to use.
As for bringing a corkscrew to bed, it's funny you should mention that, because last night I opened, in the kitchen, a bottle of port (with a corkscrew), and poured a glass with the intent of bringing it upstairs, but before I could do so, I got screwed right there on the kitchen counter, by a dark haired man, who looked very good against the red walls in the background, by the way. So it was not necessary to bring the corkscrew to bed. You know, mountain, Mohammed, etc.
Last edited by robustpuppy; 11-30-2004 at 06:58 PM..
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11-30-2004, 06:55 PM
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#3636
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Question.
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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Is this the best/easiest wine opener on the market? I want to get it as a gift for someone and it looks easy to use. Anyone have a bad experience with it? Is there something better? (Yez, I know it's expensive.)
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I've never had any trouble with this one, but it may be a little more than you are looking for:
http://www.johnlewis.com/Shopping/Pr...93&source=6132
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11-30-2004, 06:57 PM
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hmmph. I suck out my corks. That's what the classy people do. |
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11-30-2004, 06:57 PM
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I just want to be sure you are aware that it's only proportionately giant.
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Just like in the Gallery of Huge Beings. I am fond of Bikini Woman. I hope she isn't a heightist fuck.
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11-30-2004, 06:57 PM
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It's all about me.
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Question.
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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Is this the best/easiest wine opener on the market? I want to get it as a gift for someone and it looks easy to use. Anyone have a bad experience with it? Is there something better? (Yez, I know it's expensive.)
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I have one of these. I love it. And even my mother can operate it.
After this post, and the post about the $500 cell phone for the girl friend, I wish I were on your Christmas list.
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11-30-2004, 06:58 PM
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It's all about me.
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Oh, god. I hate when that happens.
Move along. Nothing to see here.
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11-30-2004, 06:59 PM
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Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
After this post, and the post about the $500 cell phone for the girl friend, I am wishing I was on your Christmas list.
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You are, just not in the way you're thinking.
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11-30-2004, 07:01 PM
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#3642
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Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
hmmph. I suck out my corks. That's what the classy people do.
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No, they open the spigot on the box. Or, if it's a special occasion, unscrew the lid.
I shall now wait, on tenterhooks, for Atticus or whoever to chime in about "very good wines" that have screw tops. Because they can't just accept a classist elitist snob joke for what it is.
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11-30-2004, 07:04 PM
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You spend all your money on super duper dice and your gift giving suffers.
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11-30-2004, 07:05 PM
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Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
I have one of these. I love it. And even my mother can operate it.
After this post, and the post about the $500 cell phone for the girl friend, I am wishing I was on your Christmas list.
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Oh, please. The cork is fast becoming a relic in world of wine bottle stoppage. As has been discussed here previously, with the advent of plastic-coated "corks" and screw tops on non-fortified wines, having some uber-precious corkscrew lying about (or even worse, mounted to your counter), is simply a way of advertising your obsolescence. You might as well have "Pisco Sours and other Trendy Cocktails" sitting on a bookshelf near your liquor cabinet.
Unless, of course, you are going for some sort of retro angle . . .
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11-30-2004, 07:05 PM
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Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
I have one of these. I love it. And even my mother can operate it.
After this post, and the post about the $500 cell phone for the girl friend, I wish I were on your Christmas list.
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