There are many varieties of wines out there. You can drink champagne, indulge in a rare Burgundy or just have your way with some fresh made wine from Venice. Whatever your choice of wine, you can rest assured that learning how to open a wine bottle is as important as knowing the differences between different wines.
The amazing thing is that it is not that hard to learn how to open a wine bottle. You only need to follow the steps supplied here and you will be able to learn as much as you can about wines and how they are supposed to be opened. Using these instructions, you will learn how to open a wine bottle using wing, double action or corkscrew. It has 2 wings or arms that will help you to lever the wine bottle’s cork out. However, you should be careful to ensure that the cork does not get broken.
- Remove your bottle’s top foil capsule or lead. This is done by cutting all round your bottle’s rim using the corkscrew’s sharp point. The screw’s arms will need to be raised as you perform this step. You can also opt to make a clean slit in your capsule foil before removing it together with the capsule.
- Ensure the Bottle is Standing. This should be on a hard and flat surface at the mid chest level or even lower. Lower your cock screw’s arms. While holding your cock screw as straight and as vertically as possible, place carefully its sharp end into your cork’s middle.
- Secure Grasping. Then grasp your bottle’s top securely and the cock screw’s lower end with a single hand.
- Turning. Using your other hand, you can then start to turn your cock screw’s handle in a clock wise manner. Ensure you apply a constant and even pressure downwards into the wine bottle’s cork. As the cork screw goes right into your cork, the arms will start to rise. In case the cork screw does not penetrate into the cork as expected, you can apply a lot more pressure to achieve the effect you desire.
- Continual Turning. You should also ensure that you keep the handle turning until the cork screw’s arms have been raised completely. This will ensure that the screw is well placed into the wine bottle’s cork.
- Pressing. Place a single hand on both arms of your cork screw before pressing down the arms. This will help to lift the bottle’s cork out. Wrap the other hand around the cork screw’s base before lifting it up in straight manner. If it is necessary, you can remove the cork’s foil. Then twist of the cork from the cork screw.
To come to a suitable conclusion, learning how to open a wine bottle is not as hard as it seems. You only need to be very careful to ensure that the cork does not break up otherwise you will have a hard time if the cork gets into your rare wine.
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