Opening a wine bottle with a ..... ?
Jun 8, 2010 | 9:19 pm
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Jun 8, 2010 | 9:30 pm
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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.
Jun 9, 2010 | 9:23 am
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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.
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Jun 9, 2010 | 9:36 am
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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.
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.
Jun 9, 2010 | 10:00 am
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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.
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.
Jun 9, 2010 | 11:53 am
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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
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
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Jun 9, 2010 | 6:38 pm
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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.
Jun 11, 2010 | 10:43 am
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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.
Will try it in a hotel bathroom next time. Just in case.
Jun 11, 2010 | 4:25 pm
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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.
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Jun 12, 2010 | 12:13 am
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Jun 12, 2010 | 4:30 pm
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Different but same process:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHTADX5nxT8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHTADX5nxT8