Unusual wine opener

Her dentist is probably a very wealthy man ;-) Personally, I'll stick with my Pulltap, thank you.

Mark Lipton

Teeth are only used to present the cork. Sheer suction power is the key to cork extraction.

Excellent choice! (I stick to my Chateau Laguiole 3004, btw.)

Did you realize, that Pulltex, manufacturers of Pulltaps, makes just the weirdest tasting glass on this planet:

It's the perfect combination of the two most inappropriate wine tasting tools I know: a tastevin cup and Impitoyable's "Le Taster" tasting glass.

M.

Unless two negatives make a positive... :-) Looks awful, more like a personal test kit for some horrible disease.

Which they definitely do *not* make.

I got one as a present. Don't remember which winery -- probably Italian -- sent it. What you cannot see is the fact that due to the extremely in-bent shape, taking a sip is almost impossible.

Absolutely.

M.

If I had not read the description of the "tasting glass" and only looked at the picture, I might have guessed that it is a cigarette ashtray. The finger grip would make it easy to empty :-).

Once the young lady extracts the cork as shown in the video, my parrot would be happy to grind it up. I wish I could make a video of him holding a cork with one foot as he grinds it up leaving a pile of cork fragments on the cage floor. The only way I likely could do this is to put a camera mounted on a tripod in front of his cage and leave it there for several days. Then he might be used to the camera and not stop chewing when you bring a camera near his cage. It is nearly impossible to force a parrot to do anything unless it wants to. They are even more stubborn than a donkey. Parrot claws have to be trimmed now and then to prevent overgrowth. I have to wrap the parrot in a very heavy towel to keep him restrained so he will not harm himself or bite me. Then he curls up his toes, much as some babies do, when you try to put shoes on them. Getting the opening in the nail trimmer over a claw is thus difficult. Trimming is painless if done properly, but he does not like for anyone to hold his feet, although he sometimes will let me do so for a short time.

;-)

M.