Wine Corkscrews
A corkscrew is a corkscrew, right? Well, that was true years ago but today's technology gives us a wide array of wine corkscrews to choose from.Traditional wine corkscrews are inexpensive and often come with a knife included on them. The biggest downside of these traditional wine corkscrews is that sometimes lesser quality corks come apart when you are trying to remove them and you end up with bits of cork in your wine.
There are also two-pronged cork extractors. These are also inexpensive and are great because you never have to worry about poor quality corks tearing apart. With a two-pronged cork extractor, you slide the prongs down the sides of the cork and twist the cork out. The only real downside is; it is possible to push the cork down into the bottle.
The double-winged lever corkscrew is the most popular style of wine corkscrew. These range in price a lot but it is possible to find good ones that are relatively inexpensive. The design is actually very simple and, unlike traditional wine corkscrews or two-pronged cork extractors, it requires very little effort to get the cork out. These also sometimes cause poor quality corks to break apart, although to a lesser extent than traditional wine corkscrews.
Finally, we have a type of wine corkscrew known as the screwpull. These come in many varieties and are often quite expensive, ranging from 30-150 dollars in price. They are made for serious wine drinkers, many come in sets that have vacuum pumps and bottle stoppers included. These are the "top of the line" corkscrews on the market today.
