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Brand: Amazon.com
Category: Kitchen

List Price: ~~$50.00~~
Buy New: $29.99
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

50 reviews
Sales Rank: 838

Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 6 x 4.3

ASIN: B000FGI5DI

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Broke on the first try! October 22, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful

I received the Pinzon Penguin wine opener set today, which gave me an excuse to have some wine with dinner! Always a good thing. We picked a bottle and used the foil cutter. It's very stylish and worked nicely. Then I dug the bottle opener itself out of the box; it's in there quite tightly.

The directions are virtually non-existent, just some numbered pictures showing the steps. There are no written instructions, no warnings about synthetic corks. I put it on the bottle, squeezed, moved the lever down and up and...nothing. I looked at the "directions" and tried again. Nothing. The opener was stuck on the bottle and wouldn't come off. My husband tried, and the lever jammed. He gently pulled it off the bottle. The cork, a synthetic one, was still fully in place and the opener was broken, with something rattling inside it. The lever won't move more than an inch or two, so it's useless after one attempt.

Since you don't know until you remove the foil if the cork is real or rubber, having a wine opener that doesn't work on synthetic ones is rather pointless. More and more wineries are distributing bottles with synthetic corks to prevent rotten corks from spoiling the wine, and the bottle I was opening wasn't a cheap one. I grabbed my classic waiter's corkscrew and bing bam boom, my bottle was open. At that point, we both needed a drink!!!

I did try the wine bottle stopper and it seems to have created a vacuum seal on the bottle but I am not convinced it really sucked the air out, which is key to preventing spoilage. It's keeping a persistent fruit fly at bay and for now, that's sufficient. I'll use my VacuVin wine stopper when I want to really cork it, because after my experience with the opener, I honestly don't trust it to work properly and am not willing to risk half a bottle of wine to find out.

As a side note, the person receiving this gift set has to figure out on his or her own what the foil remover and cork stopper are, because there's absolutely nothing in the box to tell you. I'm a wine enthusiast so I knew what they were, but a novice who is choosing this item as an easy way to open and store wine would be completely in the dark.

I would recommend the rabbit-eared puller, the original that started this how-can-I-quickly-get-into-that-bottle-if-I-can't-use-a-corkscrew craze. It's worth the money and it does the job. There's no shame in not being able to use a corkscrew, but there are better options than this!

5 out of 5 stars

Oh why didn't I get one for me? February 19, 2008
I ordered this for my Newly wed daughter whose cork screw opener had broken.

Yesterday I had the pleasure and rare opportuiny to spend time with my first born. I love my son in law and I am sure he loves me but they are still on their Honeymoon.
Me? I am just going stay on the side lines and await the results!

Now back to this marvelous tool. I wanted wine with dinner and she whips this out. It is the first time I had ever seen it. She started rave about the wonderful little Item I had added to her Christmas list. Her friends were all impressed with this little gadget and wanted one too. I picked it up and followed the directions; Wow with no exertion I had uncorked the wine in mere seconds flat. I have a rabbit type tool and have difficulty holding the "ears" and I need real strength to push and pull. The exertion was totaling absence with this Penguin opener. I like it, just mad at the price they are asking now
and it's retired? I might have to break my vow on getting stuff at whole sale prices.

3 out of 5 stars

Wine Stopper December 17, 2007
The wine opener is great, easy to use, love it. I purchased 3 gift sets & 2 of the 3 wine stoppers broke after the 2nd or 3rd use.

5 out of 5 stars

A must for wine lovers December 2, 2007
Comes in a nice package, but the fluff aside, the thing works, and works well.
For wine lovers, and gadget lovers, it's the must have wine opener.

It beats using a traditional cork screw, and having to pull, and push, and uncork, etc.

I'm very impressed by it.

5 out of 5 stars

mmanuel November 29, 2007
This is a FABULOUS winer opener. We got it as a X-mas gift and was one of the best gifts we received. We raved about this opener to other wine drinkers and come to find out it is so fabulously affordable which is even better. I have spent more money on other openers and didn'twork as well as the Pinzon. This is a smooth opener. Try it and you will love it.

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