Durand the best corkscrew …
From SmarterGoods.com: Durand the “best corkscrew to remove old and fragile corks in vintage wine bottles” Wine collectors know all too well the challenge of removing old and crumbly corks in aging fine wine bottles. Even with the best corkscrews, it is never easy to completely remove the corks in one piece. This calls for [...]
Glenn Tong – New Record
I thought you might be interested in a recent experience. I have now broken my personal best record for the Durand, the previous record being a 1923 Pommard. The Durand has now, in a perfectly elegant and thorough manner, extracted a totally emaciated and crumbly cork out of a bottle of 1922 Usaneaux Romanee St. Vivant…
Roy Hersh – For the Love of Port
Over the past few weeks, I have used the Durand, a brilliantly designed device, for extracting the most challenging of corks. I have put it through several difficult tasks, from old magnums to young and old Vintage Ports to a crusty old and potentially crumbly Madeira cork and a slew of other bottles.
Stuart Finestone – Success
I have never liked or had any success using a twin prong cork pull …… until I used the Durand. My 65th birthday was November 23rd. My children came to town to celebrate with us. I was opening a ’61 Cantemerle, but the cork began to crumble…
Roy Hersh – “I love this device!”
Anyway, tonight I have a Port & Douro wine proprietor coming to dinner at my home. I’ve never met her before or been to the property, yet she reached out and I am thrilled to be able to open some great bottles and spend some serious time in the kitchen later in the day.
Hoyt Hill – Village Wines
Dear Joel,
A friend of mine brought this wine tool to lunch one day this month when we were going to be opening several farily old bottles of wine, and I have been trying to track down a source for it ever since.
Well, here it is:
Glenn Tong, Ph.D., FAICD Director and Principal BiotechSmarts Consulting
“We tried out the Durand on a bottle of 1971 Camus Mazoyeres Chambertin last night. The wine was excellent, with amazingly intense and elegant sweet fruit and plenty of complexity and length. What would be of more interest to you though is that without the Durand, I would have spent about 15 minutes mucking around [...]
Parks Redwine – wine importer and “Dean” of American wine competitions
It works well. The Durand combines two very tried and proven technologies. While it will work on any cork, it is nearly essential for older corks in prized bottles.
Roy Hersh: “The greatest new corkscrew for Port lovers?”
Roy Hersh, on fortheloveofport.com, predicts that the Durand may be “… a great new tool for those ancient bottles of Vintage Port we always struggle with.”
Chateau Latour Vertical in Atlanta
Don Cornutt provides tasting notes and group rankings on a vertical Latour tasting spanning 14 vintages. The tasting was hosted by Mark Taylor & Yves Durand, the inventor and namesake of the Durand, respectively.
