My old Screwpull has lost much of its PTFE coating. It doesn't work too well with the plastic 'corks' sweeping the UK supermarket shelves. What do you suggest to replace it? Is Screwpull still the best?
Steve
"Steve Almond" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@uni-berlin.de:
I have had terrible luck with the lever style pullers until my last an under 15USd version from Costco called simply "professional corkscrew" It is make of metal and is fairly heavy. The amazing thing is that it pulled a synthetic cork out of my 2002 Geyerhof Gruener Veltliner last night and then shed same without so much as a hitch. Smooth as the wine.
Really like the GV by the way it was my first. I sort of described it to myself as like a Riesling only not. Had it with a rotisserie chicken (also from Costco!) I am definitely going for more of this as an alternative to Chardonnay based wines. SB just moved down a notch.
I have a cupboard full of broken Lever Style pullers (well, OK, two of 'em). Sometimes pull a plastic cork effortlessly, and the next time snap off at the neck.... Don't want to tread that path again.
How about 'manual' ones?
Steve
"Steve Almond" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@uni-berlin.de:
There is nothing that works real well with the platic "corks" they are just so damn hard to get off of the screw. they are perhaps the best argument for stelvin closures. (I too have a couple of old and broken lever type pullers, this last one is just better than the others but will it last?)
You know, yesterday was the first time I had ever come across the Stelvin capsule on anything other than a miniature bottle. I'll admit that I had not known that the closures on those six-packs of indifferent wine were Stelvins. My wine store persuaded me to try Yalumba South Australian Riesling (2003) and I was surprised to encounter the easily opened closure.
On investigation, I found that Yalumba pioneered the use of the Stelvin closure according to:
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