How To Open a Bottle of Wine I The Great Courses

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Before you can enjoy a bottle of wine, you first have to open it. And a poorly opened bottle can often ruin the wine itself, to say nothing of your experience drinking it. In this exclusive clip, watch the proper way to open almost any bottle of wine.

Unless your wine has a screw cap, you're going to need a utensil for opening it: a corkscrew. It's also called a wine key in the industry, and here's how you properly open wine.

First, you take a foil cutter, and you cut the foil from the top. And here I have a foil cutter, which you can buy very inexpensively, or, on a waiter corkscrew, there is a knife that you can do this with.

Now there are different types of corkscrews. This is a waiter corkscrew; you may have also seen a winged corkscrew; and there is also one where it's a traveling corkscrew. It's called a screw-pull, because all you do it put it in and pull it right in.

Now, when you have corkscrew, you take the coil (this part), and you put it in the center of the cork. And you drill, all the way down. And the great thing about a waiter corkscrew is that you can use leverage here, instead of pulling it straight out. So you can use the leverage here. And you pull up slowly, and you don't want to take it all the way out, and make a large popping sound. What you want to do is put your hand around it, and kind of wiggle it out.

Or, if you have one of these fancy contraptions, you wrap it around, close your hand around the handle, and you pull down, and you come up. It's that simple. It's called a rabbit corkscrew- I guess because it looks like it has ears.




There shouldn't be any loud popping sounds, and if you open a bottle too enthusiastically, you might spill. And there you have it!

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[steevyp]

Anyone who doesn't drink wine would think this is easy...how wrong they are!! I turned a cork into sawdust trying to open up a bottle of red over Christmas. lol