Open wine without a corkscrew

[themba990]

So you organised a nice romantic picnic in the park for you and your date.
You got your cozy blanket and some cheese and/or fruit to go with your expensive wine.
You check the picnic basket and disaster, you have no corkscrew...

Not to worry all is not lost...
Step 1. Remove the foil using your fingernails, teeth, whatever.
Step 2. Wrap the bottle in a towel making sure to cover the bottom of the bottle
Step 3. Hit the bottom repeatedly against a tree trunk while holding the bottle horizontally.
Step 4. When the cork emerges, pull it out.

 

[bwana]

In lieu of a towel just put the bottom of the bottle in the heal of your shoe and bang them against a wall/tree.

 

[froot]

In lieu of a towel just put the bottom of the bottle in the heal of your shoe and bang them against a wall/tree.

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

You'll shake the sediment around! You don't want that.

 

[bwana]

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

You'll shake the sediment around! You don't want that.

If you forgot your corkscrew chances are the wine you bought is plonk.

Anyway, ask yourself what's more important… sediment or a sober date.

 

[froot]

If you forgot your corkscrew chances are the wine you bought is plonk.

Anyway, ask yourself what's more important… sediment or a sober date.

Nothing wrong with a sober date

 

[bwana]

Nothing wrong with a sober date

Anyway - when's the last time you came across a bottle of wine with sediment that hadn't come out of someone's cellar?

 

[atomcrusher]

So you organised a nice romantic picnic in the park for you and your date.
You got your cozy blanket and some cheese and/or fruit to go with your expensive wine.
You check the picnic basket and disaster, you have no corkscrew...

Solution for the future ...
Don't buy any wine that has a cork .. it's a simple solution. A screw cap is superior in all ways to the old-fashioned (and porous) cork. The old-fashioned idea that a good wine must be sealed with a cork "to allow it to breathe" is nonsense. A wine that can breathe, i.e. it's exposed to the atmosphere, will go off very quickly

 

[KleinBoontjie]

Push the cork all the way in with something thin, like a wooden spoon handle etc...........noobs

 

[irie_i]

Step 1. Remove the foil using your fingernails, teeth, whatever.
Step 2. Wrap the bottle in a towel making sure to cover the bottom of the bottle
Step 3. Hit the bottom repeatedly against a tree trunk while holding the bottle horizontally.
Step 4. When the cork emerges, pull it out.

I tried this the other day and it didn't work. Banged the bottle so hard I was scared it was gonna break.

I'd rather drink the wine than smash the bottle and have nothing to drink

 

[themba990]

Push the cork all the way in with something thin, like a wooden spoon handle etc...........noobs

You are correct, this also works but there is the risk that the cork crumbles

 

[The_Ogre]

Open your car's boot and in your toolbox find an old screw.

Screw it in using your screwdriver and then pull the screw with cork out with your pliers.

You can do some more screwing once she notices how manly you are...if you know what I mean

 

[Datura]