How to uncork a bottle of wine with a shoe

After seeing a French demonstration of a technique to open a bottle of wine without a corkscrew, Pat Kiernan put it to the test. He damages his wall. And his shoe. But it works.

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• Pat
• Kiernan
• wine
• bottle
• open
• shoe
• corkscrew

[pjohnson20]

wow... are you serious... by the time you get it open, you not only could've gotten a corkscrew in your house, but you would've had to time to look through your house, realize you don't have one, drive to a store, buy one, and return to open it with a proper corkscrew. Overall good video though.

[patspapers]

@pjohnson20 I tried to make it clearer on my website that this video was produced wtih tongue in cheek just to see if I could duplicate what I'd seen in the French video where I first saw it demonstrated. Fully agree with your point. (But it is a handy piece of information in case you were stuck in the wilderness with no corkscrew)

[sunnycoo123]

u fucking wasted 3:55 mins of my life

go stick that bottle in ur ass

[patspapers]

@sunnycoo123 Think of it as me keeping you out of trouble for 4 minutes.

[vinithehat]

hit it like a man, not a canadian.

[patspapers]

@vinithehat I didn't want to break it. I wanted to prove the theory. (And I own the wall and the shoe.)

[noidealeftbehind]

everyone with their negative comments chill. pat kiernan is the fucking man. i assure you he is cooler than me or you or anyone else

[motogpphil]

Didn't take so long (I must be stronger than you ;)  ) New years eve - no corkscrew - job's a good 'un. Thanks.

[StarryEyes1987]

Just tried this, took a while but it eventually worked. Thank goodness, I needed this bottle for a beef stew I'm cooking for dinner!

[droctogonapus1223]

@vinithehat

im canadian



[Capemasta]

It's all about TECHNIQUE

[lwon01]

egh, bad wall, bad wall. stop it you naughty wall you. dont make me slap you, egh.

[spot723]

But you did it wrong! The Frenchman FIRST hit the bottom of the bottle THREE times with the heel of the shoe. THEN he placed the bottle inside the shoe and shtarted hitting the wall with it. Go back and watch it again. Gees...

[alanmcseveney]

Just tried this, being stuck in a recording studio late night with no corkscrew to be had, and the first bottle didn't work. It had a plastic cork, which I suspect may be incompatible with said technique, because the second bottle we tried with a real cork opened in about 10 hits. Costly experiment, cos the shoe is totally destroyed, but at least we're drinking.

Cheers. ;)

[aceadmin777]

interesting but it shakes up the wine

[joslynm]

Cannot believe the amount of comments totally missing the dry humor here. Maybe you need to see Pat in action on NY1 to appreciate him.