A bottle of wine

I've seen people push the cork all the way into the bottle in desparation, but seriously, if you have 10 minutes to run to the nearest shop, get yourself a corkscrew - anything else can end in disaster.

Cath - who has spent hours picking bits of cork out of her glasses of wine...

You mean, you have a cork and no cork-screw?

My first time (back in the days of being a cork-virgin) I used a pocket knife. It took some doing, and I mangled the cork, but it did eventually come out.

Some of your fancier Swiss Army Knives have corkscrews in them

Beats me. We have a bottle of good Italian wine in the house that someone I'd never met before gave to me at my wedding and told me it would "See Me Through" (judging from his breath, it had seen him through my whole wedding).

I've never opened it, it's sitting in the cubboard gathering dust. I never drink and my wife very rarely does. But if I were opening it, I would totally smash it on a rock and take a big drink out of the broken bottle, and then bleed to death...

see if you can push the cork all the way in. it'll just float in the bottle. unless you can go get a cheap corkscrew or borrow one from a neighbor.

You will definitely need a good cork removal tool, one that screws into the cork and something that applies pressure needed to pull the cork out. Try running out and getting one in the local grocery store, or liquor store. It shouldn’t be too expensive, just a few dollars.

Don’t try any other way, you’ll not be able to cork the bottle again and you more and likely bust the bottle.

Nothing beats a corkscrew!

Here's an embarrassing story for me to tell...

A few years before I met my wife, I was dating with this girl. She decided to cook me dinner one night, and I had brought over a bottle of wine. Well, she rarely drinks either, so of course she had no wine-opener.
I was determined to set the mood, but I didn't want hop in my car and leave for 30 or so minutes while I went to a grocery store to buy a damn wine-opener. So I improvised. I tried a knife at first, the top of the cork just crumbled. I found a Phillips head screwdriver and tried to manually drill it into the cork. I thought I was getting somewhere. I could feel the screwdriver sinking deeper into the cork.
And then, "POP!"
Red-faced and frustrated, I saw I had driven the cork INTO the damn wine bottle. It floated in the wine along with little chunky bits of disintegrated cork debris.
Fortunately, the night was not a complete bust. She actually thought the whole thing was hilarious and came up with the brilliant idea of placing a paper towel over the wine glasses and pouring the wine through the paper towel. The wine went through (we had to pour slowly) but the little chunky bits were filtered out.

Purchase a corkscrew. They're very inexpensive. Whatever you do, don't push the cork down into the bottle--it can make the wine taste like crap.

hahaa Oarsman! I was just going to suggest about the same thing.

oarsman said:

Nothing beats a corkscrew!

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Oh my God! That's f***ing brilliant! I wish I'd thought of that!

oarsman said:

Nothing beats a corkscrew!

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Tell me you were a boy scout! Always prepared or is this the case of necessity is the mother of inventions?

aadams73 said:

Whatever you do, don't push the cork down into the bottle--it can make the wine taste like crap.

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In other words, it'll taste like wine?

If you buy your wine in a box, you don't need a corkscrew.

Shadow_Ferret said:

In other words, it'll taste like wine?

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That's pretty much it really! I'm not fond of wine--way too acidic.

Go to you nearby supermarket and get a corkscrew, lady!

p.s. Do you know certain part of a pig is shaped like a corkscrew?

Shouldn't a woman of quality be able to suck the cork from a bottle of wine (take-off on Willie Nelson's (right person?) suck-the-chrome-off-a-bumper-hitch thing).

maestrowork said:

Do you know certain part of a pig is shaped like a corkscrew?

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And here's a hint: It's not the tail.

DeborahM said:

Tell me you were a boy scout! Always prepared or is this the case of necessity is the mother of inventions?

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Yes, and I earned both my Emergency Preparedness and Wilderness Survival merit badges.

NeuroFizz said:

Shouldn't a woman of quality be able to suck the cork from a bottle of wine (take-off on Willie Nelson's (right person?) suck-the-chrome-off-a-bumper-hitch thing).

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the big trick with that is, not to spill it all over her blue dress when she gets it off.