I love this bicycle seat bottle opener. I love how simple the design is and how inconspicuous it will look just hanging out under your bike seat. I do wish, however, that there was a way to add a corkscrew to it, too. That way, when you slapped your wine bottle onto your bike, you would be all set to open it. You know you want one.
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After the impressive (and impressively drunk Breton’s) video banging shoe bottle of wine (I speak English, I promeese), even more have appeared. And if you must have corks and cork screws, well, thank you.
How to open a wine bottle with … your shoe! It works! Wait for the last few seconds, it’s worth it.
On a recent episode of 30 Rock, Tina Fey’s character, Liz Lemon, ever interested in food, exclaims “I want to go to there” when enticed with a gift certificate to a steak house. Well, seeing that there was a corkscrew museum in France, and a virtual museum online, makes me feel the same way.
Hit the link for the virtual tour.
“I want to go to there.”
Ok, I get it now, the wine in a can thing is because little screw cap bottles aren’t “hip” enough.
Other ideas weren’t terribly appealing — a bottle with a screwcap looked too much like those airline single-servings; not bad, but not the hip image the winery wanted for Sofia. Then they contemplated the can.
“The more we kind of played with the idea, the more we warmed up to it,” said Erle Martin, president of Niebaum-Coppola. “We realized we could make a can very cool and very elegant.”
A hip can, well that makes sense.
No, wait, no it doesn’t.
Well, I was surprised when I first tried Dale’s Pale Ale in a can. Not surprised that beer came in cans, oh no, I’ve been to college. I was impressed with how good it really was. Finally, a safe way to backpack or trek with quality brew! But wine? Why? It isn’t carbonated. Here’s how to avoid ever having to drink wine in a can: are you camping, backcountry skiing, or the like? Get a 3 liter box of wine like Franzia, open up the cardboard, and remove the plastic wine bladder. On the trail, once you have finished the wine, the bladder is so small and so light that you won’t notice it in your pack at all, I promise! There, no need for wine in a can. Problem solved. Glad I could help.