What to do when you want to open a bottle of wine and you’ve only got a tree handy
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Posted August 28th, 2009 by Michael Kane
All new customers of Curious Wines, and indeed readers of this blog from the start, will be well aware of our love of the humble but splendid Pulltap’s corkscrew. I wrote an ode to the Pulltap’s in December last, praising it’s strength, reliability and most of all it’s simplicity.
To my dismay, this week I discovered an even simpler method of uncorking a bottle of wine. Well, simpler in the sense of not needing a corkscrew. Just a, er… tree.
Watch this. We haven’t tried it yet ourselves, but we will – and we’ll post that as well, successful or otherwise, in due course 
August 28th, 2009 at 12:58 pm
Ingenious and clever technique. Great for picnics in the woods, if only we had better weather to practice the manoeuvre.
Looking forward to seeing your attempts.
August 28th, 2009 at 4:44 pm
So am I Fran, believe me
August 31st, 2009 at 9:21 am
C’mon guys, surely someone else (besides me!) was a poor student once with nothing but a sealed bottle of wine and no corkscrew?
We’d take a thick telephone book (tree in this video) to soften the blow and not put a hole in the wall or smash the bottle. The trick then is to bash the end of the bottle as hard as you dare against the telphone book placed against the wall – cork rises. Wine may be ruined but then one of the advantages of being penniless – with no corkscrew – was that the wine was probably vinegar to begin with!!
August 31st, 2009 at 10:30 am
Ah ha! Indeed, it’s not just you discovered the phone book trick Kevin http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rafqCGfVj2I
Today I guess students just buy screw-caps
August 31st, 2009 at 3:34 pm
is that why buckfast is screwcap ?
August 31st, 2009 at 3:56 pm
I feel this blog is reaching new levels with this post. And not in a good way