Exterous blog: hardest ever wine to open

[sdifox]

Amateurs.

It even has a name:

Sabrage

Cuz that is for champagne, not wine...

 

[IronWing]

OK, I had to Google that one:

Looks messy!

Where's the champagne video?

 

[Captante]

Cuz that is for champagne, not wine...

Still counts!

 

[dullard]

My hardest bottle ever to open was at a party. The party hosts didn't drink much wine but thought that it would be fun to serve what I think is an imperial size bottle (size of 8 standard bottles). Their only wine bottle opener was the cheapest corkscrew imaginable. Since I was a wine drinker and didn't know anyone at the party, they assigned me to the role of opening it up.

• First there was the thick wax coating covering the cork. It took maybe 10 minutes to get the wax off bit-by-bit with a variety of knives, nearly impaling myself multiple times. The wax bits covered myself and the kitchen counter by the time that I was done.
• Tried the cheap corkscrew which was way too short and broke the cork off deep in the bottle neck. The top half of the cork came out, but the corkscrew could no longer reach any of the the remaining ~triple sized cork.
• I ended up using a hammer and a butter knife to chip away at the remaining cork bit by bit over about 15 more minutes.
• Finally, with one big hit of the hammer, I pushed the remainder of the cork deep into the bottle.
• From there, I had to pour out the wine, constantly using a spoon to remove the cork shards from the wine glasses.

I'm certain that there is a better way, just I had none of the proper tools.

 

[deadlyapp]

My hardest bottle ever to open was at a party. The party hosts didn't drink much wine but thought that it would be fun to serve what I think is an imperial size bottle (size of 8 standard bottles). Their only wine bottle opener was the cheapest corkscrew imaginable. Since I was a wine drinker and didn't know anyone at the party, they assigned me to the role of opening it up.

• First there was the thick wax coating covering the cork. It took maybe 10 minutes to get the wax off bit-by-bit with a variety of knives, nearly impaling myself multiple times. The wax bits covered myself and the kitchen counter by the time that I was done.
• Tried the cheap corkscrew which was way too short and broke the cork off deep in the bottle neck. The top half of the cork came out, but the corkscrew could no longer reach any of the the remaining ~triple sized cork.
• I ended up using a hammer and a butter knife to chip away at the remaining cork bit by bit over about 15 more minutes.
• Finally, with one big hit of the hammer, I pushed the remainder of the cork deep into the bottle.
• From there, I had to pour out the wine, constantly using a spoon to remove the cork shards from the wine glasses.

I'm certain that there is a better way, just I had none of the proper tools.

I have a handful of double magnum sized bottles but didn't realize that some large format bottles had longer corks also!

 

[dank69]

I've never had any problems opening wine because I've loved wine since I was a teenager and learned how to open it well, haha.

4 days to register and almost a year to type 24 words. Impressive. I look forward to your reply in December

Won't be one. He's a spammer.
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[Denly]

Yes.



It's one of those cheap openers that's just corkscrew and handle. We used to travel with our own but I got tired of being pulled aside at every TSA checkpoint so we just use what we can get at hotels

One hand holding the neck, one holding the handle and having the 2 thumbs against each other as leverage.

 

[Denly]

OK, I had to Google that one:

Looks messy!

Why against the wall and not the ground?