How do you push a cork into a wine bottle?

[kelel01 1]

I BROKE my corkscrew off in my cork. Anyone know a trick to pushing the cork down?

[RevJim 0]

I couldn't find my corkscrew for the last bottle I had.

Solution? 3 drywall screws and a pair of pliers.

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[Snowwhite 0]

The pressure in the bottle will prevent it from going down. Follow RevJims advice, go up

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[kai2k1 0]

Blow in it really really hard??

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Poke a hole in it first with a shiskabob skewer.

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[Evelyn 0]

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I BROKE my corkscrew off in my cork. Anyone know a trick to pushing the cork down?

Yeah, that has happened to me - sucks. I just pushed the cork down into the bottle, then poured. It just comes out a little slower. Good luck!!

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[akarunway 1]

you can push it down w/ a screwdriver or knife. Helps to twist on the way down. Don't push too hard. Nice and slow. Kinda like, well... or you be wearing a glass

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[heidihagen 0]

haha that sucks. but i can relate!
my bf opened a bottle with a swiss army knife once and had the same thing happen.... those swiss army corkscrews just mutilated the cork.
anyway, since it was no longer airtight... we were able to pushed it through but ended up with little bits of cork floating in our glasses. mmmmm! heidi

i didn't lose my mind, i sold it on ebay. .:need a container to fit 5'4", 110 lb. cypres ready & able to fit a 170 main (or slightly smaller):.[/ce

[kelel01 1]

Thanks for the advice, guys. I gave up, went out and bought a new bottle of wine and a new corkscrew. I wish I could have gotten a better corkscrew, but beggars can't be choosers.

[Brigitte36 0]

Buy a new bottle of wine?

[lawrocket 3]

Jeez. That's why I only drink wine with a screwtop lid.

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[Yoshi 0]

stick to boxed wine...

also a really cool wine key... they have them at specs (dont know if you have specs) but its a little needle type thing and a handle that holds a CO2 cartrige and you just stab through the cork...push the button on top for a split sec...and POP kinda like a bottle of bubbly...

cool stuff

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[Evelyn 0]

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Jeez. That's why I only drink wine with a screwtop lid.

My husband and I love to go winetasting and a lot of the wineries were telling us that they are going to the screwtop, more economical and works just as well. So in the future a lot of the upper grade wines will have screwtops. Yikes...now how are we gonna be able to tell the difference between an expensive and inexpensive wine...oh...I guess we could taste it .

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[lawrocket 3]

Yep. Bonny Doon Vineyards is one of the leaders in this movement.

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[hooked 0]

Yep, I've done that before. Push the cork into the bottle, and drink the wine with little pieces of the cork in it!

Now, I have one of those new-type corkscrews with the handle, all you do is open the handle, put the opener over the bottle top, bring the handle back over, and it pulls the cork right out. No twisting, nothing. Then just reverse the motion and it gives you the cork! I love it! I have tried many types of wine openers, this is by far the easiest!

J

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[skycat 0]

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Jeez. That's why I only drink wine with a screwtop lid.

My husband and I love to go winetasting and a lot of the wineries were telling us that they are going to the screwtop, more economical and works just as well. So in the future a lot of the upper grade wines will have screwtops. Yikes...now how are we gonna be able to tell the difference between an expensive and inexpensive wine...oh...I guess we could taste it .

I was in Napa about a month ago and the reason they are going to a screw top or synthetic cork is due to cork taint. Cork taint is caused by bacteria in the cork and happens in about 5% of wines and I have had wines that have been tainted the difference in taste is HUGE and you can smell it. For the higher end wineries the cost is about the same to change from cork to screwtop because they would have to change the bottles a long with the closing mechanism. The ones I talked to are going to a synthetic cork over the screwtop.

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[RevJim 0]

My Aunt and Uncle brought a very nice bottle of Merlot for my wife and I over at Christmas time. This is the bottle that I could not find my corkscrew for, and used the 3 screws and twist with a pliers trick. It was a synthetic rubber type cork, and that alone surprised me. I wish I could remember what vinyard/vintage it was though...

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Karma
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[masterrig 1]

I read that a couple years ago. Told a wine conisseur(sp) friend of mine from Calif. about it and he just kinda sighed and drooped his head. He's always gettin' on me about Texas wines and screw caps.


Chuck

[jdhill 0]

Go get a wine opener that has the two thin pieces of metal that go between the cork and glass... you just work them in, then pull it out...

J

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[AggieDave 6]

If the cork broke you have to cut the cork up and push it in the bottle, then you run the wine through a strainer into another container, rinse out the bottle and dry it...THEN use a funnel and put it back in the bottle. If you need to save it you use a vacum sealer/plunger and that'll stay for a couple of days depending on the wine.

Better yet, buy a quality decorker.

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[skykittykat 0]

Emergencies only...

Hammer and and small chisel (or such like implement) and if your technique is good, no glass or cork will break.

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[IMGR2 0]

Find you a good cork soaker. (SNL skit)

Say it a couple of times and you'll get it.

[ACMESkydiver 0]

-Is this some perverted reference, Kel?

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[bobsled92 0]

too late now but, there is a devise that you poke through the cork and it pumps air in to push the the bottle and=cork out(don't use with "sparkling wine")
see: Sharper Images

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