No corkscrew with you?

[MLipton]

originally posted by Keith Levenberg:
Hm. I have a particular old bottle with a cork so loose that a corkscrew or ah-so would just plunge it down. Wonder if there's a technique to shoe the bottle without stirring up the sediment too much.

Keith,
If the cork is that loose, chances are that the impact would only send wine up the sides of the cork and promote leakage. The idea (as explained in the video) is to use shockwaves from the impact to force the cork out. That will only work, however, if there's no other route of egress for the wine.

Mark Lipton

 

[Keith Levenberg]

That doesn't sound right to me. It would take less pressure to push the cork up than to squeeze around it. I'll let you know. I definitely have to open this in some kind of unconventional way. It's between this, port tongs, and some kind of vacuum process TBD...