Originally Posted by
number_6
I used to think that, until a particularly fragile cork in a particularly valuable bottle pushed into the wine and disintegrated -- not good. The screwpull works the best for fragile corks, interestingly enough, at least on the thousand bottles that I've tried it on.
the screwpull works best of the screw type because the diameter of the thread is among the largest.(the outside edges of the screw are very near the outside edges of the bottle). for old,soft and dry corks, i find an "Ah SO" works best.