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There is an art to pulling an old cork, which is far more fragile than its modern counterpart.  Paulo Pong therefore used The Durand corkscrew, which is specially designed for…

No moment produces as much anxiety for wine lovers as pulling a cork on a precious old bottle.  A cracked, deteriorated cork can crumble into the wine, marring what should…

Whenever you extract a cork from an old bottle, there’s always the danger of the cork breaking or falling into the wine.  Serious sommeliers and collectors have various tricks for…

The tool which is essential to my job is my Durand corkscrew.   We open so much older wine; it saves me an incredible amount of time in not breaking corks.

The Durand is a Michigan railroad history museum, a line of demarcation in Afghanistan, and a newly patented device that is amazingly effective in removing older and fragile wine bottle…

I was recently introduced to a new patented device specifically designed to tackle vintage corks – I’m so impressed with it that I now use it almost to the exclusions…