BajaNomad - No cork screw?

No cork screw?

Bob H - 7-23-2010 at 09:39 AM

OK, you get down to Baja. You stop and get some fine wine from the valley, and discover you do NOT have a cork screw.

Here's what you do. You open the bottle of wine with your shoe.

http://www.flixxy.com/how-to-open-wine-bottle-with-shoe.htm

schwlind - 7-23-2010 at 09:48 AM

Hey Bob H...

Now who would have thunk??? I may try it sometime (but not with an expensive bottle of wine... I might break it!) Oh perish the thought!

Thanks for the tip!
Linda

Bob H - 7-23-2010 at 10:09 AM

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Originally posted by schwlind
Hey Bob H...

Now who would have thunk??? I may try it sometime (but not with an expensive bottle of wine... I might break it!) Oh perish the thought!

Thanks for the tip!
Linda

Make sure you use a quality shoe! :tumble:

WOW That's Great!!!

Sonora Wind - 7-23-2010 at 10:12 AM

Unless your wareing flip flops. :cool:

bufeo - 7-23-2010 at 10:24 AM

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...Make sure you use a quality shoe!

No kidding.

Having been in the wine business for eleven years I knew the trick of bottle-to-tree, but sans shoe...and I've never had 'quality' shoes.

There's another trick to extracting a cork after one has shoved a cork down into the bottle.

Take a wire coat-hanger and untwist the two ends. Place the bottle up-right and the cork will float near the top of the wine (the neck might prevent it from being completely vertical).

Straighten the coat-hanger and insert the twisted (not the curved end that would be over a hook or rod) down beside the cork far enough so that the twists have passed it.

Then pull straight up slowly. Voila! The cork is out. I've never had that fail. I even had the opportunity to demonstrate this to a wine steward in a fancy New York restaurant. It saved him from an extremely embarrassing situation and subsequently cemented our long-lasting business friendship.

When without a cork-puller I've often pushed a cork into a bottle and then used the above extraction method—or a variation of it in the absence of a coat-hanger.

Allen R

mtgoat666 - 7-23-2010 at 10:40 AM

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Originally posted by bufeo

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...Make sure you use a quality shoe!

why not leave the cork in the bottle?

Osprey - 7-23-2010 at 10:48 AM

There must obviously be variations for the shoe remove thing. For example probably best to use work boots for champagne, loggers boots for a magnum of the bubbly, bowling rental shoes for Boone's Farm, fancy highheels for airline minitures, etc. etc. (oops, airline minis don't have tiny corks)

[Edited on 7-23-2010 by Osprey]

noproblemo2 - 7-23-2010 at 10:51 AM

Who woulda thunk it????????? Pretty neat idea to keep in mind though..

Genius..........can't wait to try that out a couple of dozen times

akmaxx - 7-23-2010 at 10:56 AM

mtgoat666 - 7-23-2010 at 10:58 AM

screw tops are better for wine, screw tops have lower rate of failure than corks (and foam corks have lower failure rate than cork corks).
someday all wine will be screwed :lol:

vandenberg - 7-23-2010 at 11:33 AM

To prevent all of this nonsense, I stick to the vacuum sealed bottles of Padre Kino Red.

All you need is your thumb. :biggrin:

Iflyfish - 7-23-2010 at 11:44 AM

Brilliant, just brilliant!! Salud!

Iflyfish

DENNIS - 7-23-2010 at 11:47 AM

I don't know who makes it, but someone in Guadalupe Valley is putting out a boxed wine. It's really really bad.

bufeo - 7-23-2010 at 11:48 AM

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Originally posted by mtgoat666
why not leave the cork in the bottle?

That would be fine under most circumstances, but there are times when a cork in the bottle might be "unsightly". That wine steward I mentioned was opening a $$$$$-bottle of wine and he just goofed. The cork was not soft or crumbly. He just exerted too much oooomph when he shoved the cork-puller (not a corkscrew, in this case) down. By extracting the cork it saved him some embarrassment.

It was primarily for esthetic reasons, but old corks, especially the very tops of them, can effect the aroma of a wine.

Allen R

BajaCactus - 7-23-2010 at 12:20 PM

You see DK... no big fuzz... jejeje

BajaCactus

BajaGeoff - 7-23-2010 at 12:31 PM

I have used this method in Baja before, but utilized a beach towel folded around the base of the bottle. It takes a bit longer than the video indicates...but it does work!

David K - 7-23-2010 at 05:47 PM

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Originally posted by BajaCactus
You see DK... no big fuzz... jejeje

BajaCactus

I wasn't going to say a thing Antonio! :yes:

What no petty fighting?

Howard - 7-23-2010 at 06:54 PM

I guess it takes a bottle of wine to not have any trivial bickering! I love this web site and this might be a first, everybody playing nicely in the sand box. I guess all it took was some wine.

I will not mention that some the turtle thread people should follow suit. Oops, I guess it was the 3rd glass of wine that made me say that.

wilderone - 7-23-2010 at 07:22 PM

finding that oak tree in Baja might be a problemo. ! Slamming that box of vino against a cactus just won't work??

Bob H - 7-23-2010 at 07:49 PM

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Originally posted by David K

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Originally posted by BajaCactus
You see DK... no big fuzz... jejeje

BajaCactus

I wasn't going to say a thing Antonio! :yes:

David, please tell us the story - along with photo's .... :lol:

Udo - 7-23-2010 at 07:58 PM

Si, por favor, DK!

CaboRon - 7-23-2010 at 08:20 PM

Thanks Bob H,

Awesome !!

Marc - 7-23-2010 at 08:28 PM

All I need is a knife to cut a hole in the box.

David K - 7-24-2010 at 10:32 AM

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Originally posted by Bob H

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Originally posted by David K

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Originally posted by BajaCactus
You see DK... no big fuzz... jejeje

BajaCactus

I wasn't going to say a thing Antonio! :yes:

David, please tell us the story - along with photo's .... :lol:

No!

If Antonio wants to, that's okay... anyway, if I were to say a thing... it will be in Part 3 of my trip report "The Beach, Birds and Bumps in Baja: July 17-20, 2010", which I may get posted today...

mtgoat666 - 7-24-2010 at 10:56 AM

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Originally posted by wilderone
finding that oak tree in Baja might be a problemo.

huh?
lots of oak trees in baja

Bob H - 7-24-2010 at 11:11 AM

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Originally posted by mtgoat666

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Originally posted by wilderone
finding that oak tree in Baja might be a problemo.

huh?
lots of oak trees in baja

If you can't find one, just do it against one of your car tires. Should work just fine. Just don't hit the hubcap!

bajajudy - 7-24-2010 at 01:08 PM

When a vid comes along that tells you how to do this with a flip flop, I'm there!

dtbushpilot - 8-18-2010 at 10:32 AM

Well, yesterday I had the opportunity to impress mi esposa bonita with this new trick. We are touring the beautiful Sierras of California and Nevada and stopped to pick up something for lunch at Trader Joes in Carson City. I couldn't resist picking up a few bottles of 2 buck (3 buck here) chuck along with our lunch stuff. We stopped at a beautiful lake in the mountains for lunch. I asked Jill if she would like a glass of wine. Sure, she replied but we don't have an opener. No worries I replied standing a bit taller with my chest out, I can get the cork out. Bristling with confidence I sauntered over to the car and retrieved my tennis shoe, grabbed the bottle of wine and made my way to a nearby Sequoia (not really sure of the type but it was a biggie). I put the bottle in the shoe, set my feet with my knees slightly bent, took a quick look over my shoulder to be sure my soon to be dazzled esposa was looking and commenced to hammer away on the tree.

I beat on that thing till I was blue in the face and my sweet wife was laughing out loud. The cork never moved. I even tried pounding the bottle directly on the tree with no success. "There's a rock over there that you can use to break the top of the bottle with" Jill said laughing uncontrollably.

With my tail firmly between my legs I shuffled over to a nearby picnic table and set the bottle down. "The cork must be really stuck, I probably couldn't have gotten it out even if I had a corkscrew I announced. I took out my car keys and easily pushed the cork into the bottle.

Well, we had a nice lunch in a beautiful place. My manhood took a pretty big hit but I've gotten over it. I'll have to look for something else to do to impress Jill......those class 4 rapids look doable on my inner tube, think I'll give it a try, that should do it.....dt

Woooosh - 8-18-2010 at 10:46 AM

They didn't show him chewing the lead foil seal off the neck of the bottle... lol

GrOUper-GAr - 8-18-2010 at 02:54 PM

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Originally posted by dtbushpilot
Well, yesterday I had the opportunity to impress mi esposa bonita with this new trick. We are touring the beautiful Sierras of California and Nevada and stopped to pick up something for lunch at Trader Joes in Carson City. I couldn't resist picking up a few bottles of 2 buck (3 buck here) chuck along with our lunch stuff. We stopped at a beautiful lake in the mountains for lunch. I asked Jill if she would like a glass of wine. Sure, she replied but we don't have an opener. No worries I replied standing a bit taller with my chest out, I can get the cork out. Bristling with confidence I sauntered over to the car and retrieved my tennis shoe, grabbed the bottle of wine and made my way to a nearby Sequoia (not really sure of the type but it was a biggie). I put the bottle in the shoe, set my feet with my knees slightly bent, took a quick look over my shoulder to be sure my soon to be dazzled esposa was looking and commenced to hammer away on the tree.

I beat on that thing till I was blue in the face and my sweet wife was laughing out loud. The cork never moved. I even tried pounding the bottle directly on the tree with no success. "There's a rock over there that you can use to break the top of the bottle with" Jill said laughing uncontrollably.

With my tail firmly between my legs I shuffled over to a nearby picnic table and set the bottle down. "The cork must be really stuck, I probably couldn't have gotten it out even if I had a corkscrew I announced. I took out my car keys and easily pushed the cork into the bottle.

Well, we had a nice lunch in a beautiful place. My manhood took a pretty big hit but I've gotten over it. I'll have to look for something else to do to impress Jill......those class 4 rapids look doable on my inner tube, think I'll give it a try, that should do it.....dt

DITTO on the Deflated CheST.
hahaha. i pounded the crap out of a bottle... cork did not budge (bottle felt close to break'n in hand). it was a plastic cork though... hmmm.

dtbushpilot - 8-18-2010 at 04:52 PM

Mine was a plastic cork too, I wonder if it makes a difference.....dt

Russ - 8-18-2010 at 05:20 PM

French whine! :rolleyes:

Bob H - 8-18-2010 at 08:39 PM

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Originally posted by dtbushpilot
Mine was a plastic cork too, I wonder if it makes a difference.....dt

Yes... for sure... no breathing room on plastic corks!

BajaBlanca - 8-18-2010 at 08:49 PM

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh the French winer made it look so easy ..... I will give this a try tomorrow ....