I was the offical wine, champagne "cork un-doer" [ her words, and they belonged to a Country Club].
I also won a $50 bet that night that I could open 3 bottles of Korbel and one bottle of Dom Peri....and NOT "pop the cork" across the room ( one light fixture had been taken out already by the Boss).
Since when do you use a corkscrew to open a champagne bottle?! How does that even work?
The proper way to open champagne without the cork flying across the place is by putting a cloth napkin or dish towel over the cork and slowly working it out.
brad cook
The proper way to open champagne without the cork flying across the place is by putting a cloth napkin or dish towel over the cork and slowly working it out.
brad cook
I use a towel to hold the cork and slowly twist the bottle. We always call it the Cary Grant method because we had the same problem with the cork going flying, saw Cary Grant do the twist method in a movie and tried it, it worked saved a many light bulbs, windows, cats and people every since then. Still get the nice pop sound though.
Charby
LawDog,Well, going to have to try this one.
Be sure to give us a range report.
I just use a waiter's corkscrew for still wines and a dish towel for sparkling ones.