Have to share this awesome trick (Wine drinkers)

[AViking]

Neat but a cooler way to open bottles is with a sword.

 

[Scotteq]

Neat but a cooler way to open bottles is with a sword.

That won't work with wine because wine corks are completely internal to the bottle. You're thinking champagne.

 

[torpid]

Not really planning to try this trick for opening the bottle but I was interested to see his foil removal method. Googling it, it appears as if people claim it works pretty well. Maybe ATOT knew about this move already but it's news to me. My wife always rolls her eyes when I use a serrated knife to cut around the top of the bottle to remove foil.

 

[Howard]

That won't work with wine because wine corks are completely internal to the bottle. You're thinking champagne.

Step 1) Wash the outside of the bottle.
Step 2) Prepare a suitable 10-micron filtration system.
Step 3) Crush wine bottle with a sword.
Step 4) Filter wine for consumption via aforementioned 10-micron filter.
Step 5) ???
Step 6) Profit!

 

[HardcoreRobot]

You HAVE TO SEE this one WEIRD trick to open wine!!!

 

[OCGuy]

"The Rabbit" (the wine opener, not the woman's pleasure device) has been a life saver for me for opening wine.

 

[monkeydelmagico]

Boxed wine FTW

 

[CurseTheSky]

I'm not a wine expert, but aren't you supposed to avoid having the wine contact the bottom of the cork if possible?

 

[DesiPower]

 

[zinfamous]

or you could just buy a bottle with a screw top, which actually preserves the wine better than a cork 😛

Careful, the very vocal and very mobilized Portugal trade lobbying group is about to be all over your ass....

 

[zinfamous]

I'm not a wine expert, but aren't you supposed to avoid having the wine contact the bottom of the cork if possible?

quote the opposite, actually. You store wine on its side, slightly tilted, so as to keep the cork moist at the bottom. This insures that the seal is maintained.

Otherwise, the cork will dry out enough to allow impurities into your bottle.

This is why fancy pants people will check the cork when ordering a bottle at a restaurant, or the cork is simply handed to them. They just want to see that it was properly stored (wet bottom). If you're paying 30 to 500 to $1k per bottle, you want to make sure that the bottle isn't spoiled.

 

[Lithium381]

I might try this tonught with a bottom shelf wine and see what happens... ill report back

 

[Scotteq]

Step 1) Wash the outside of the bottle.
Step 2) Prepare a suitable 10-micron filtration system.
Step 3) Crush wine bottle with a sword.
Step 4) Filter wine for consumption via aforementioned 10-micron filter.
Step 5) ???
Step 6) Profit!

Real Men just chew the glass. 😀

 

[Tiamat]

I would not do that with a "nice bottle of wine" as he put it. At least not a red, and since we previously used the phrase "nice bottle of wine" we're not talking about a white. Might as well shake the damn thing to mix all the sediment up. Yuck.

Most nice bottles should be decanted anyways. I usually allow a nice red wine to open up in a wide bottom decanter for 15 minutes or so. Then again, I edc a wine decorker 😛

 

[jagec]

That won't work with wine because wine corks are completely internal to the bottle. You're thinking champagne.

You're supposed to hit the flange at the top of the bottle, not the cork. Stress riser+brittle glass=clean(ish) break. It's more impressive with champagne, sure, but it works with both.

 

[WelshBloke]

You're supposed to hit the flange at the top of the bottle, not the cork. Stress riser+brittle glass=clean(ish) break. It's more impressive with champagne, sure, but it works with both.

The thing about champagne is that it fizzes out when you open it, and when it fizzes out it takes all the little shards of glass out as well.
If you do it with still wine be prepared for some unexpected extras in your drink.

 

[SP33Demon]

 

[AViking]

I'm pretty sure I've seen it with wine. I could be wrong though. In South Africa there was Captain Badass at a winery who simply took a sword and cut off the whole top of the bottle. Don't try that at home.