How to Open Your Wine Without it Getting Screwed

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How to Open Your Wine Without it Getting Screwed

11/8/09

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Popular Written by Kate Sedgwick

Have you ever been stuck with a bottle of wine and no corkscrew? So was this guy.

Just because it’s not getting screwed doesn’t mean it’s not up for a good bang, eh?

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Kate Sedgwick co-edits Matador Nights from Buenos Aires where she teaches English, learns Spanish and thoroughly enjoys herself. Her art and writing have appeared in print and on-line publications and her novel in progress will be received with prurient glee by critics of American culture if it ever gets into their grubby little hands. Find out more about her than you ever wanted to know here. (Author photo by Sebastian Santana).

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Hal Amen replied on November 8, 2009

That’s some parlor trick!
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Candice replied on November 8, 2009

GENIUS!
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eileen replied on November 9, 2009

inventive! Not sure I want to try it, but am tempted (outside, someone else’s wine).
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Michelle replied on November 9, 2009

Oh, I’m trying that.
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Brendan Murphy replied on November 11, 2009

Incredible- another way the Francophones are a more sophisticated people!

Though judging on his state, I suspect that bottle contains absinthe.
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Alouise replied on November 13, 2009

That’s a great idea. I can’t seem to open wine with a corkscrew, maybe this will work.
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