OT: Corkscrew for Charles Shaw wines?

On Sun, 17 Apr 2011 11:39:07 -0500, Janet Wilder
wrote:


I know. My first one was a cheapie from the grocery store and it was
used as much as any corkscrew is used at home, but it lasted 25 years
min.

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Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
 
On 2011-04-16, Kent wrote:



No TJs in CO!

CO is great for booze n' beer but really sucks on the wine front. Did
run across a bottle of $3.50 cab that wasn't totally horrible and a
local $19 cab that was surprisingly good. But generally, good wines
are hard to come by out here in the high country.

nb
 
"Nunya Bidnits" wrote in message
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The auger style corkscrew shouldn't be used for an old wine. It will
fragment the cork. You'll never see an auger used by the sommelier in a
restaurant with an extensive wine list.

Kent, for the worm
 
zxcvbob wrote:

I think he was complaining about the corkscrew
breaking, which the coil type can do. The type
with a solid web won't break, but will be harder
to screw into the cork because you're pushing
more material out of the way.
 
Kent wrote:

Since we don't have any 'old cellared wines' that really isn't an issue.
Should some come into our possession, I will find someone competent to
open those bottles :)
 
On 17/04/2011 1:09 PM, sf wrote:


I wonder if there is a problem with the way some people use them. My
brother is one of those people who cannot keep a cork screw. He has had
lots of different styles of cork screw and had broken every one of them.
We had identical metal wing cork screws. I still have mine. His lasted
a couple months.
 
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sf wrote:



Don't know about Janet, but Om has discussed her wine preferences
several times on this group. To *my* taste, they seemed to range from
sweet to very sweet. Many of the expensive European wines are quite
dry. I'm not surprised that she wouldn't like them.

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On 4/16/2011 5:09 PM, notbob wrote:

I agree. My DH worked for an upscale liquor store in Riverdale, (the
fancy neighborhood of The Bronx) NY when he was in college. We have a
"Bolla" brass cork screw with wings that was probably a free promo at
the time. It's the best corkscrew ever.

One time the screw came out and I put it back with super glue. It's
still working.

Maybe if you are really nice to me, I'll leave it to you in my will. ;-)


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Janet Wilder
Way-the-heck-south Texas
Spelling doesn't count. Cooking does.
 
On 2011-04-17, sf wrote:


They work fine till they lose propellant. I still had plenty of
liquid in the cartridge when it stopped being effective and I hadda
get a new one. At roughly $5 ea and useless when only 2/3rds empty,
it's more than the cork that's being screwed.

nb
 
On 4/17/2011 12:09 PM, sf wrote:

I think ours is somewhere around 50 years old. If DH got it when he was
in college he was about 19 or 20. He'll be 70 (G-d willing) in June.

Don't tell the Smithsonian. They might take it away and then where would
we be?

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Janet Wilder
Way-the-heck-south Texas
Spelling doesn't count. Cooking does.
 
That's true. I've found a $10 sauvignon blanc that has a screw top.
$10, to me, is expensive wine :-)

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Janet Wilder
Way-the-heck-south Texas
Spelling doesn't count. Cooking does.
 
Dave Smith wrote:

Where the corkscrew is a helix. I have had a cheap kind that had a
screw with wide flanges. It destroyed cork after cork.


I've seen people screw in part way. Not me. I screw it in all the way.
Better leverage.

I've seen people move the corkscrew sideways back and forth. That's how
to break the corkscrew not how to pull the cork. If I can't pull the
cork I screw the tap in even farther. At some point it starts spinning
the cork inside the bottle and that loosens the seal. Then pull
straight out. Every once in a great while when that does not work I
switch to a narrow knife and destroy the cork on purpose.
 
On Sat, 16 Apr 2011 15:29:53 -0700, "Kent"
wrote:


I'll try that wet cork thing soon, thanks.


I have all three of the most common types, but I don't bother
switching them in the middle of removing a cork. :)

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Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
 
On 4/16/2011 5:29 PM, Kent wrote:


I have been to many wineries and tasted gallons of wine in my day. I
have found that those two pronged cork screws work like magic in the
hands of the wine pourers at the wineries or tasting rooms, but are
useless pieces of junk when I get them home.

YMMV


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Janet Wilder
Way-the-heck-south Texas
Spelling doesn't count. Cooking does.
 
On Sun, 17 Apr 2011 11:39:07 -0500, Janet Wilder
wrote:


I've been using my winged cork screw for nearly 50 years, never had a
problem uncorking any wine bottle, don't remember what it cost or even
where I got it, just looked, has no name or any identifying marks. I
have a few other cork screws lying about, the mini kind that fit in my
pocket and some as part of a pocket knife... but I use the old winged
one all the time. I don't think it's pot metal, just weighed it, 7.5
ounces, I'd say it's solid cast stainless steel with a high nickle
content, except for the two pivot pins, those are hardened steel
dowels, and has a nylon bushing to cushion the bottle mouth, has a
very nice patina like an old nickle. I never paid much attention to
it before, just used it, sits in my kitchen junk drawer.... probably
cost under a buck at a 5? & 10?.
 
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