How to open the cork of red wine:

1. Use the screwdriver of the corkscrew to align it with the middle of the cork, and turn it vertically downward and clockwise. Control the force and do not drill through the cork. Drill slowly until the auger is almost all the way into the cork.

2. Put a slightly thicker towel on the bottom of the bottle, with the bottom of the bottle facing the wall, the bottle perpendicular to the wall, and hit the wall repeatedly with appropriate force.

3. If you don’t have a professional bottle opener, take out screws and pliers. Drive part of the screw into the cork and leave the other part outside. Use pliers to tighten the screw and pull it out together with the cork.

4. Put a table knife on the neck of the bottle, slide the blunt edge of the knife down until it touches the ridge of the glass, and hit it repeatedly until the neck of the glass bottle is cut off. Just hear the breaking sound, then put on gloves and unscrew the broken glass.

5. Use a lighter to light the area around the bottle cap. The cap will expand when heated. At this time, use a knife or other tools to pry it open. If you do this, the neck and mouth of the bottle may be temporarily heated, so be careful not to burn your hands.

Extended information:

There are many ways to seal wine bottles, but wine bottles are mostly sealed with cork stoppers, especially for high-end wines, stoppers made of high-quality cork should be used.

The School of Wine Technology of the University of Bordeaux II in France also has a laboratory specializing in cork stoppers. In addition to researching the use of synthetic materials to manufacture simulated cork stoppers, it also uses liquid chromatography, gas chromatography, etc. to analyze the composition of cork stoppers. and its impact on wine aroma quality.

It is said that before wine was sealed with cork, there was no special wine cork. Usually, the container is plugged with some material such as rattan and grass, and then sealed with fire paint.

There are many disadvantages in doing so: during the opening process, small particles of fire paint and grass clippings will inevitably fall into the wine, thus affecting the hygiene of the wine; lax sealing will cause serious oxidation of the wine. The quality of the wine will be affected; wine leakage is even more difficult to avoid, causing great losses.