Rhonda R.
This is a great set for wine! It's easy to insert the needle and effortlessly pump air into your bottle so that the cork just pops out. The pop is a little louder than I expected, it makes it sound more like champagne. It's super though bc no cork or pieces of cork get broken off during the process.
Johan T.
Item works perfectly! Some of my wines are over 14 years old, and although I turn the bottles at least once a month, in Arizona, the corks dry out and crumble. Nothing worse than having to pour the wine through a screen to get cork chips out of it. I pushed the needle through the cork, pumped it about 3-4 times and the cork was sliding out and staying in one piece. I chose this model as it does not require CO2 cartridges which would probably leak out after a while. For the price, I am extremely satisfied and would recommend this opener without reserve
Alexei K.
Amazing opener, very fun, makes opening every bottle of wine like opening a bottle of champagne! For some really tight corks it goes off with a very loud bang and if you are not holding the pump firmly it can fly off and hit the ceiling (the cork with the pump :D)
Brian S.
I open more bottles of wine than I would care to admit. Corks can be a problem. The best bottle of wine can have a cork that just won't cooperate and you end up with cork in your wine when the cork splits as you're trying to pull it. Better corkscrews do work better. I've had the rabbit type, but I find the best tool is the one you have with you and they're so big they don't fit in the drawer I'd like to keep them in, so they don't get used. I have other corkscrews that work well, but no matter how great the corkscrew, you still have that tricky cork every once in a while. And, let's face it, it takes a bit of effort to get the corkscrew to actually screw straight down into the cork.
I like this cork remover because it's compact. It's easy to use. And it eliminates any problems associated with an uncooperative cork. Simply push the needle down through the cork. The only problem I could foresee is the needle somehow got bent. Once it's through the cork, just pump a few times and the cork pops out like a champagne cork. Then, you push the cork off of the needle. It couldn't be simpler.