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Brand: Metrokane
Category: Kitchen

List Price: ~~$110.00~~
Buy New: $29.25
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars

59 reviews
Sales Rank: 192

Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.3
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 8.7 x 3.3

MPN: 6015
Model: 6015
UPC: 022578060156
EAN: 0022578060156
ASIN: B000063K7G

Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Condition: New in box, Ships in 24 hours

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Great Wine Opener! January 18, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

I gave this as a gift to my sweetie and he absolutely loved it! We enjoy wine, but hadn't bothered to purchase a user-friendly wine opener. It worked so well that we fight over who gets to open the bottles!

4 out of 5 stars

Great service January 13, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

The product came quick and in great condition, with the exception of the plastic on the front...but who needs that anyway?? Thank you.

1 out of 5 stars

Cheap January 1, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

Very Expensive for the quality. Looks nice in the pictures but scratched the plastic while opening the package. I was embarassed to give it as a Christmas Gift. It does open a bottle of wine but there are several cheaper alternatives.

2 out of 5 stars

It works but feels flimsy December 28, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

I guess I'm a little disappointed with this item. I received one as a gift a couple of years ago and I loved it so much I purchased this one to give as a Christmas gift this year. The one I received a couple of years ago feels much sturdier than the new one. The new one seems to be made of metal colored plastic instead of metal like my old one. It still removes a cork fairly easily it just feels like it will not be long before it breaks.

3 out of 5 stars

a bit excessive,but a cute gift December 25, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful

All you really need here is the corkscrew, but the other bits-foil cutter, stopper ecc. do make a more imposing gift. Be aware that the increased number of moving parts means that the Rabbit (and all its kin) are more likely to break than the simpler corkscrews.

Wine used to be stored in wood and sold by the pitcher, or bucket-full. Strong glass bottles came along in England in the 1660's. At first, they were stoppered with glass, each stopper being ground individually to fit its bottle and then tied in place. Uniform plugs of cork gradually replaced the custom-tailored glass. The cork, exported from Portugal, was inserted for half its length in the bottleneck, and the consumer twisted it out.
The corkscrew appeared a few years later, at the end of the century, and corks could then be driven flush with the bottle's neck.
We are a people with too much time on our hands so it's not surprising that we have generated at least a hundred variations on the corkscrew. The only thing that matters is this: the business end of a corkscrew, called the worm, should be a wire formed in a spiral. (See illustration.) Corkscrews with stamped worms that resemble wood screws should be rejected, shunned, even anathematized. Here's why. The wire displaces the least amount of cork and gives the greatest amount of lifting surface. The stamped worm drills a hole in the cork and offers only its edges for lift. If the cork is old, or soft, this latter arrangement can leave you with a half a crumbled cork in the bottle. The wire is slim and makes a spiral that's wide enough to slip a paper match inside. The tip is pointed and sharp.

For more information, try reading New Short Course in Wine,The

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