Opening Wine Corks?!
Opening Wine Corks?
Is there anyway to open a wine bottle with a cork without using a corkscrew??? Please..i need an answer!
Answers:
Yeap, takes some work but I've used even my car keys to slowly push the cork down into the botlle. You will have some cork floating if your not to careful.
you can always push it into the bottle if you just want to drink the wine.
Push into the bottle, but for the future reference I would buy a corkscrew, sometimes pieces of cork get into the wine which can be pretty annoying.
If you do end up with cork in the wine, just run it through a strainer, cheesecloth, or coffee filter, and it will be fine.
There is a CO2 injector that uses a needle that pops through the cork, injects either CO@, some use nitrogen and the extra gas pressure litterally lifts the cork right out of the bottle.
-beware if you drink white wine. most whites use synthetic corks and this method doesn't work at all with them. I ended up with a tuscan white all over a customers store when tried.
If you don't like a waiters corkscrew, (my personal favorite) invest in a rabbit. It does all they work with out any screw ups or a bartenders cork remover, no corkscrew but kind of difficult to get used to, however leaves no mark on the cork.
Good luck, I LOVE WINE Read www.winespectator.com forums as a guest for more info.
Many Australian wines, especially white wines now use screwcaps so you just unscrew it.
There is a clever gadget with a syringe to pump air into the wine bottle so the cork pops up with the air pressure.
Also for champagne and sparklig wines like Prosecco di Valdobiaddene and Franciacorta, as well as Cava from Spain, you can just open the bottle without a corkscrew, if you know how. Enjoy!
buy a wine bottle that has a screw top lid
or a cask of goon.
There is a device to open wine corks without damaging the corks. It has two flat sides and grips the cork on both sides and gently lifts the corks out so they can be re-used for bottling. Here is a link to a picture:
http://www.made-in-china.com/image/4f0j0...
