In my house, we go through maybe a bottle of wine a week. Though we enjoy wine and love the art of the wine tasting, we don’t consume a superfluous* amount.
*Yup, I totally thesaurus’d that word to replace ‘excessive’. It’s such a fun word which never seems to get much use.
So naturally, when the end of the world as we know it began to approach, we did what any one else would do and stocked up* on the nonessentials.
*Is this a complete contrast to my last post about the nonsense of overstocking? Yes. I am human. In full disclosure, I also bought candy and two family-sized bags of dill pickle potato chips.
When I was in my 20’s*, I went to a bachelorette party. It was a pretty low-key party comprised of girls who just wanted to celebrate the bride-to-be together. But naturally, alcohol made an appearance. After dinner, one of the girls went to open a bottle of wine. I’m not sure who or what was to blame, whether it was user error, a faulty corkscrew, or something else, but the cork ended up in the bottle.
*Which, if you’re playing along, I still am.
This one event convinced me I would never attempt to open a bottle of wine.
Then my brother gave me this wine opener and everything changed. At the time, I drank wine maybe every two months. I probably cooked more with wine than I did drink it.
But suddenly with the ease of pulling a lever, I could open a bottle of wine, saved from the fear of reversing the desired direction of the cork or chiseling it apart with the corkscrew.
This wine opener is a conversation piece whenever I have someone over for dinner. The simplicity of opening a bottle, the lack of elbow grease needed, immediately sparks intrigue.
“What kind of bottle opener is that?” is the immediate question asked.
It has only been in recent years that I realized I should share the love. I’ve made a mental note to make this a gift for new homeowners, weddings, and family members whose corkscrews I no longer wish to see.
And now, I’m sharing it with you in an attempt to take our mind off the grim and think about the happier things in life…like wine.
My Brookstone wine opener came in a kit like this:
And pretty much the only other thing of value in the kit was the foil cutter, another item that when I use people say, “I really need one of those!”
Unless you’re like the men in my family who seem to have agreed that gripping and twisting the foil off works just as fine.
Another little wine related item I stand by is the Vacu Vin Wine Saver:
I’ve never been a fan of putting a cork back into an unfinished bottle of wine, and this is the best answer primarily because it seals the bottle. I can store my open bottles of wine on their sides in my wine fridge with zero leakage after using the wine saver.
Cheers!
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What I’m currently drinking: Rioja Reserva 2014
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