Opening a bottle of wine without a corkscrew
Feb 1, 2014 | 1:34 pm
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I beg to differ,although at the times when I pracitsed this the quality of the wine was not realy imperative,to me it seems that the cheaper corks were easyer to open withouth the correct implement. Although,from the name of your chosen wine,although Im not so familiar with north american viticulture,I might detect a wiff of sarcasm,which in the very serious context of this thread,is certainly not called fore.
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Feb 1, 2014 | 3:07 pm
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Feb 1, 2014 | 4:13 pm
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Feb 1, 2014 | 4:22 pm
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Feb 1, 2014 | 4:26 pm
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All you need is a wall and a shoe.
http://m.today.com/food/no-corkscrew...hoe-2D11899299
For your first attempt, I would use someone else's shoe
http://m.today.com/food/no-corkscrew...hoe-2D11899299
For your first attempt, I would use someone else's shoe
Feb 1, 2014 | 5:52 pm
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On a different note... can anyone get a cork out from the bottom of an empty bottle of wine w/out breaking the bottle? Another great bar trick...
Feb 1, 2014 | 7:53 pm
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Feb 1, 2014 | 11:12 pm
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Many years ago... 10? I was at a tiny hotel near FCO with a bottle of wine I bought in Rome, wanting to drink it with my then GF before we flew back to the states the next day.
No corkscrew to be had anywhere. We kept trying to break the bottle to get in, but it just wouldn't budge. At no point did we think about pushing the cork INTO the bottle.
I felt stupid years later when I realized that.
No corkscrew to be had anywhere. We kept trying to break the bottle to get in, but it just wouldn't budge. At no point did we think about pushing the cork INTO the bottle.
I felt stupid years later when I realized that.
Feb 2, 2014 | 6:53 am
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I was going to mention this. Increasingly, you can find GREAT bottles of white with the screw cap, and decent reds with the same. Great red wines still tend to use a cork, but for casual drinking in a hotel room you can usually find something OK that is a screw cap.
Feb 2, 2014 | 9:24 am
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And so many NZ pinot noirs now come with screw top thus allowing for great reds also. The only place I have problems now on this score is the USA which seems to have some prejudice against screwtops.