Opening a wine bottle with a ..... ?
 

:eek: Has anyone tried this? Is anyone willing to try it?

Interesting. I'm tempted to try it, and I know just the bottle. A client gave me a bottle of private label chardonnay (his company name on the label). He warned me it wasn't very good. As for the location, I think it will be a shower wall.

Yeah, I would like to know if this really works. I have been without a cork screw before and ended up pushing the cork inside the bottle. Not proud of it but I needed a drink! :D

Before I followed your link, I thought it was going to be about sabering a bottle. But this is even better! MacGuyver would be proud!

The link is slow to load but I too have pushed the cork into the bottle mucho times with various tools including screwdrivers, pens, knife handles and once a revolver after removing the cylinder.

MisterNice

Every now and then the video circulates of shoes, phone books, walls, etc. I thought we had a thread about the drunk frenchman doing it in the past, but can't find it.

I have tried it, once with success, once without. Though hitting the bottle with the shoe sounds way better then putting the bottle in the shoe and smacking it against a wall.

I have no problems opening a bottle with a knife or scissors or something like that in most cases, just slowly work the blade of a butter knife most way through the cork and then turn that to pull it out. Smashing the bottle to me just seems like a way to end up with a hand full of glass.

Or a mouthful

I've Got to Try It
 

Great idea. I'll try it this weekend (with white wine in case of malfunction)!

My brother saw some French army officers doing the saber opening with champage. He showed me the part that snapped off with the cork still inside. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVhrP132gYI

Just had to try it. I suspect the type of cork and the condition of cork is a factor, as well as the shoe and wall. I have a significant quantity of homemade wine that, while quite good, is very well suited for such an experiment (relatively low cost). Four different types of footwear that were readily available were tried against a stone wall outside as it was felt that a broken bottle of dark red wine would be much less of a problem out of doors. I pretty much got to the point that there was concern that the bottle was going to break. No dice. I plan on trying with other samples in the near future and will report back.

Very interesting. But then, all my cheapie wine are using plastic corks, so this probably wont' work. :)
Will try it in a hotel bathroom next time. Just in case.

I once opened a bottle of wine by leveraging the cork out of the bottle halfway with a knife off my Leatherman before pulling it out with my teeth.

Ahh my misspent college days :cool:

How many teeth remain?

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LOL :D

Looks like the link is broken now. Anyone can provide the new link?

Different but same process:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHTADX5nxT8

Thanks for the updated link. Wow, that is indeed ingenious. Since it's been couple months from the last post, I am curious to know if anyone had actually tried to open a bottle this way? and your result?

I tried and failed, but was banging against the floor as have no vertical wall hard enough to ram against.

I always pack a pocket corkscrew with me on business. It may mean I have a drinking problem, but I'd like to think I don't ^

practice makes perfect......

I can recall, in Italy with the Navy decades ago, using the method (after having seen an Italian do it). The bottle in shoe, bang on wall version likely spreads the impact for a more effective hydraulic effect. I do recall the caveat that accompanies the trick. Use only "new" wine which as been stored vertically, so that the cork will not have swollen from absorption. It must have been in Taranto, where there was not much else to do and the local "vintage" had little to recommend it. Old naval engineers and gunners could probably prove up that the narrow neck of the bottle increases the pressure of the liquid slammed against the cork. The floor is a bad choice. Gravity limits the hydraulic "ram" effect.

I understand the principle but I'm skeptical of the results. I can't read the wine label in the video but it looks like a new dry cork to me.

No, the drinking problem is when you can't open the bottle...semper paratus.