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Bob H
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No cork screw?
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
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schwlind
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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
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Bob H
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| Quote: | 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! 
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Sonora Wind
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WOW That's Great!!!
Unless your wareing flip flops.
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bufeo
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| Quote: | | ...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
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mtgoat666
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| Quote: | Originally posted by bufeo
| Quote: | | ...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 |
why not leave the cork in the bottle?
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Osprey
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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]
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noproblemo2
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Who woulda thunk it????????? Pretty neat idea to keep in mind though..
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akmaxx
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Genius..........can't wait to try that out a couple of dozen times
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mtgoat666
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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 
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To prevent all of this nonsense, I stick to the vacuum sealed bottles of Padre Kino Red. 
All you need is your thumb.
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Brilliant, just brilliant!! Salud!
Iflyfish
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I don't know who makes it, but someone in Guadalupe Valley is putting out a boxed wine. It's really really bad.
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| Quote: | 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
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You see DK... no big fuzz... jejeje
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"Where Baja is so much more than a dream..."
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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!
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David K
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BajaCactus
You see DK... no big fuzz... jejeje
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I wasn't going to say a thing Antonio!   
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What no petty fighting?
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.
We don't stop playing because we grow old;
we grow old because we stop playing
George Bernard Shaw
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finding that oak tree in Baja might be a problemo. ! Slamming that box of vino against a cactus just won't work??
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Bob H
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| Quote: | Originally posted by David K
| Quote: | Originally posted by BajaCactus
You see DK... no big fuzz... jejeje
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I wasn't going to say a thing Antonio! |
David, please tell us the story - along with photo's ....
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