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When you’ve lost your corkscrew, a shoe will do (video).

Posted on June 14th, 2010

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7 Responses

  • Martin Moran said...

    Di you put this up first or did you see it on HRH Jancis’ twitter

  • Lar said...

    I didn’t see on Jancis’s but on someone else’s (can’t remember where). It wasn’t easily “embeddable” so I uploaded the .flv to YouTube

  • Joel Christoe said...

    okay – this is awesome! I laughed this morning when I viewed this. Thanks for sharing.

  • Sue said...

    At a picnic, forget the shoe. Just hit the bottom of the bottle against a tree trunk. It works just fine,

  • Lar said...

    Or even better, just bring a wine with a screwcap!

  • Bernard said...

    Hi Laurence,

    A wine bottle opened, as only the French can. I suspect he may have gotten inspiration from this late night/early morning research:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zv8RvNxy6uM

  • Lar said...

    Damn it! Should have posted that one, far more realistique!

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