Cork's Wide Open Mouth
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Cork Proctor is a talented fella who, with his ex-wife Carolyn, has written an autobiography that is as funny as it is sad. If you'd like to become a stand-up comic, first read MY MIND IS AN OPEN MOUTH, the true-life tale of  a gifted funnyman, whose reviews were brilliant, but never made the big time in spite of  his obvious talents.

Read "...Open Mouth," You'll end up loving Cork, but not the elusive Bitch Goddess of Stand-up Stardom.
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Puts the rabbit to shame. Holds a nice charge for use on many bottles. The top unscrews and acts as your foil cutter. A wide base keeps it from falling over. Press and hold the down button and this does the rest. The up button releases the cork. There's nothing about it I would change.
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Zraly's book illustrates the world of wine with lavish visual appeal.  In real life there's no substitute for tasting a wide variety of wines.  But if you don't have years to build up your own tastes, advice from experts helps a lot.  This volume may not suit those who want the Advanced Graduate Course in the World's Price-No-Object Wines.  Wines here are common enough so you can expect to find them on a wine list.  So most readers will find tasty ideas worth remembering from the Windows on the World Complete Wine Course.

There's a lot of detail and wine industry lore in Zraly's book in addition to his lists of widely available wines.  If you study carefully, you can become a knowledgeable consumer of wine, and with luck inspire interesting remarks from the sommelier.  Scattered through the book you'll find references to more focused volumes "for further reading."  Yes, it takes a lot more than reading one book to make a valued sommelier.

I'm a very visual learner, so the maps of the world's wine regions helped me understand much better the differences in flavors.  Thirty years ago, I tasted many Bordeaux wines and developed my own list of favorites in St-Estephe and St-Julien.  (Your tastes will differ, and that's the point of doing a lot of tasting.)

In the mean time, American vintners have developed remarkable wine making skill.  I've come to appreciate some remarkably complex Napa Valley Cabernets with an independent flavor worth sipping with clean bread.  And I've enjoyed some delightfully fruity Willamette Pinot Noirs that go especially well with raspberries and kisses.

This book helped me update my knowledge of wines, which I haven't purchased since the last time I ate at Windows on the World.  So there was a lot to absorb and the book did a fine job of helping me to learn the general field quickly.  In the next lessons, I have to think carefully about the flavors of the wines I encounter, and remember them well.  The systematic organization of this book can help a reader put the wines  in context and compare the flavors more easily.  So beyond merely recommending vintages, I have to score this book high for helping the reader learn to compare wines and make a decent guess about wines he or she has not tasted yet.
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I like these double action corkscrews because they make opening a bottle of wine--even one with a dry cork--easy and almost fool proof. The two stages allow you to screw all the way into the cord and use the short stage to get the cork out half way.  Then you move to the long stage and get the cork the rest of the way out.

The Barvivo is well made.
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As a sommelier and a server, I open a LOT of wine.  The Truetap Double Hinged Corkscrew is my favorite model, I've purchased it in several colors.  These work great and are a great price.
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An additional map in my home office.  Looks great on the cork board.
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Very impressed with quality. Lovely sound produced, and slide works well.
Cork has a slight tendency to loosen (as mentioned in other reviews) but I simply press down on it every time I use the mute to ensure it stays and have not encountered any issue
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I have been a fan of the Cork series so decided to give this a try. Same style of character development and unfolding of the story line so it seemed very comfortable to me.
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This corkscrew has a great weight to it.  Well made.  High quality.  I followed the website instructions for darkening the rosewood, which worked great.  Definitely worth it.
Adding to this, I have used the corkscrew for several weeks now.  Love the spring loaded hinge detail.  Just a great, solidly made product.
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It has a good adhesive. Also, it came on time. The cork is good quality. I would definitely recommend for purchase.
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I actually bought this to re-hydrate the cork stoppers on some lovely vintage whiskey bottles. The cork band is wrapped around the glass stopper similar to a clarinet. It is working beautifully.
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1st using it and it was so much better than the traditional way. I also like the piece that cuts the foil and exposes the cork. Well worth the few bucks if you open even a few bottles of wine per month.
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The Oxo Steel CorkPull Wine Opener/Corkscrew is a well made /quality product. The corkscrew works fine and I recommend it.
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My bottle must have a very narrow mouth because I had to sand the cork to make it more narrow.  But I got it to work, so it's all good.
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This product looks great and is a real pleasure to use. The spring-loaded lever provides two-stage opening and feels more solidly engineered than my old wine key, which had a rather loose hinge in the middle of the lever. The groove in the screw seems to make it easier to remove the cork and avoids the squeaking and creaking noises I had with the old key. The serrated knife blade is nice and sharp, making it easy to remove the foil cap.
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I have been making Home Made Muskadine Wine for over 30 years under the Label Old Fart Vineyards.

My secret to keeping it good and tasty is that I cork the bottles with Premium VSI Agglomerated Corks # 9 purchased at Amazon.
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You know how it is if you end up buying a very nice bottle of beer in a 22, maybe an oaked arrogant or a world wide stout, and you don't end up wanting the whole thing in one sitting.  Or perhaps you try something new and want to save the rest to share with a friend you know will love it.  You need a way to cork it for later.

Corks don't work.  Neither do those champagne stoppers.
These are the only beer bottle stoppers I have ever found that do, and they work WELL.  You can have half a 22, put a stopper on it and let it sit in the fridge for a few days.  When you open it back up, there is a nice satisfying *pop* and no loss of carbonation.

Well worth the money, I just wish they didn't come in such a large quantity!  You only really need one or two around.  That said, it worked out well as I give them as gifts to friends who are beer lovers.