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Tales from the corkscrews

Do you have a (cork)screwy tale? If so please send it in to our chief de-corker for review and possible publishing here on The Winetree's website.

What is the corkscrew's job? How can we quantify it? Most important, when one has a nice bottle of wine - where the hell is it? At The Winetree Liquors we eagerly test all corkscrews offered for sale in our stores. The following is our primary testing procedure:

The corkscrew test

1. Is it ready to go or will it require concentration and directions to work?
2. Does it help you guide the spiral into the center of the cork or is it entirely up to your marksmanship?
3. Does it penetrate the cork bottom? Oops!
4. Does it have a tendency to destroy the cork? Bad...
5. Does it push the cork into the bottle? Not good.
6. How much force will it take to pull the cork out? A three to five second grunt may be too much!
7. Is it easy to grip the bottle while using it or do you need several helpers?
8. How hard is it to get the cork off the spiral? Before and after you've enjoyed the wine?
9. How long does the process take? Come on, I'm thirsty!
10. Does it work well on old bottles with fragile, dry or hard corks?
11. Is there a foil cutter or is that what the bread knife is for?

Enjoy!

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