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But for some reason, the culture of wine and spirits provides especially fertile ground for misbegotten concepts like these.The move to metal packaging has allowed Sprecher to reach key customer targets and has resulted in a clear growth in sales since the initial launch. Year after year, it yields a bumper crop of inane but highly giftable innovations like wineglass holders that clip onto party plates, leather beer holsters and octobongs, the most efficient method yet devised for eight college students to consume a keg’s worth of beer simultaneously.
Leading the parade is the electric corkscrew, a baroque solution to a problem that has baffled no one for the last five centuries. These devices infest the market, recognizable by their sleek design — they resemble modernist pepper mills — and sublime pointlessness.
They work like this: The user places the business end of the opener on top of a wine bottle from which the foil cap has been removed, then depresses a button. With a hum or a whir, the corkscrew spiral, known as a worm, insinuates itself into the cork, easing it upward and out of the bottle. When a second button is pushed, the worm reverses course and excretes the cork. Voilà!
Laura Maniec, the manager of Corkbuzz Wine Studio in the West Village, agreed to turn her professional hand to evaluating a half-dozen examples.
First up, the Epicureanist electric cork remover (about $50), a chaste silver column powered by four AA batteries. Ms. Maniec (pronounced “manic”) regarded it with a perplexed look, as though it were some sort of practical joke. She grabbed the device,The second dumping, the report noted, occurred on August 3, 2012, Friday, when “the same garbage compactor truck was observed by the shift supervisor to have dumped another pile of hospital waste inside the facility. pressed it against the lip of the bottle and pushed the button. The bottle began spinning like an Olympic skater.
“I’m sorry, but this is funny,” Ms. Maniec said. She steadied the bottle with her left hand, and the cork ascended without incident.
The Ozeri Maestro (about $35) fared a little better. “This doesn’t feel as goofy for some reason,” she said. “You can feel that it’s locked in.” At the top of the Maestro, vertical blue bars indicated how much battery strength remained in the device, which comes with a recharging stand, and the temperature of the wine being opened.
And so it went. Price seemed to make little difference. The Oster model, which sells for about $20, was whisper-quiet and pulled with authority. The Waring Pro Professional Wine Center, which included an electric device to suck the air out of an open bottle and then seal it with a rubber stopper,They removed the majority of the bolts but not the locking Wheel nut, that's why I managed to get so far performed in similar fashion for about $55.
The Wine Enthusiast opener (about $30) had an appealing visual feature.An employee discovered a waste management truck smoking around 10:50 a.m., Tuesday, Sept. 4, and traced the source to cargo smoldering inside the compactor. The bottom third of the cylinder was transparent, exposing the drama to view as the cork ascended in a seductive blue light, a little like Captain Kirk being beamed up on the Enterprise’s transporter.
Then came the Metrokane Rabbit corkscrew (about $45). It pulled the cork but refused to give it back. A hasty C-section to extricate the cork cleared the device, which then emitted strange grinding noises. The worm began moving back and forth instead of spiraling.
