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October 21, 2006

Two things I learned about wine tonight ()

by fluffy at 9:00 PM
  1. I ♥ Malbec
  2. A good waiter-style corkscrew is a heck of a lot easier and faster to use than a wing-style opener. Screw rabbit-ears openers. There's a reason waiters use waiter-style openers. (But it has to be a good double-hinged one, not one which is just a corkscrew and a useless lever thing which can't actually reach the lip of the bottle when the corkscrew is inserted. The one I linked to is the specific one I have, which also has a really nice foil cutter. I bought it at Target though Target's website doesn't list it but it cost $6.)

Comments

#7864 10/23/2006 08:37 am
What Malbec did you have? Argentinian wines are up-and-coming, but you can still get them pretty cheaply for the quality.

As for corkscrews, I like to use both rabbit-ears and water-style depending on the bottle, or maybe my mood or something. Rabbit-ear ones don't work well on synthetic corks, for example.
-bill
#7865 10/23/2006 09:14 am
I don't recall the vintage. I'll try to remember to check when I get home. It came in a really cool black frosted glass bottle and was around $10 though.

I got the waiter style corkscrew because rabbit ears corkscrews were failing me repeatedly on all cork types. I actually had more trouble with natural corks breaking though. Rabbit ears corkscrews are this difficult balance between not grabbing enough and piercing the cork while with waiter style ones it is easy to feel if you need to grab more and whatnot.
#7867 10/23/2006 11:42 am
Huh, rabbit ears ones vary widely in quality. The problem I have with the synthetic ones is that they stick and it's a bear to get them out with rabbitears. I can get just about any cork out with waiter-style but I might not feel as cool doing it. haha.
It's been kinda decided for me tho because our good pair of rabbitears broke, this metal rod keeps falling out. Our other one is ok but definitely harder to use.
-bill
#7868 10/23/2006 08:21 pm
Bodega Privada.
#7877 10/30/2006 08:46 am
thanks, i'll keep an eye out.
-bill