Re: A few 1985s in large formats

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Michael Pronay
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Michael Pronay

And the even larger 'Godzilla'.

Happy 50th, Michael!

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Bill Spohn

First, happy 50th. You must have had several people to help you celebrate, considering the amount of wine those several large bottles contained.

I have had champagne that is difficult to open, but usually the champagne pliers work. I did once resort to an over-sized vice-grip pliers that clamp onto just about anything with very high pressure - they usually are used for turning large metal pipes.

At one time there were some Italian wines that had corks compressed so extremely that one might nearly mistake them for wooden pegs. I ruined a screw pull on one - the screw stretched about an inch and curved to one side. I have a very old heavy metal corkscrew made in Germany that will work when all else fails. Above the screw is a threaded metal rod on which the handle can turn. One first locks the handle and turns to sink the screw in the cork. Then one unlocks the handle and turns it. This slowly draws the cork without undue effort - unless it pulls the center out of the cork. In any event, something is going to come out. The worst kind of cork probem for me is when the cork is very old and tends to crumble, but yet seems to be glued to the sides of the neck. If the screw pull starts to crumble the cork, I next switch to the type with two metal blades that push down between the cork and neck. If you can get these in, rotation then often will cut the cork loose.

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