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I am in awe of The Durand, a purpose-built wine owner that effortlessly plucks even the most decrepit and troubled corks from vintage bottles of wine. With a curious history and an…

It is a marvel of ingenious engineering, neatly fusing together the standard pigtail worm found on any corkscrew with the two-pronged ah-so, before that time the best specialized way to remove…

Spoken about in awed tones, revered by those who wield its great and uncanny power, there is happily such a divining rod of today’s modern wine world, a great and…

Opening old bottles, even well-preserved ones, can be fraught as fragile corks can crumble into the precious liquid. The Durand, invented by a collector frustrated by that adulteration, is a…

Mature, pricey wines are a treat to taste but stressful to open: Will the inevitably fragile corks crumble? At a recent 23-vintage retrospective of Bordeaux Château Troplong Mondot, Managing Director…

The Durand is a no frills, highly proficient piece of hardware especially tailored for hard-to-open vintage bottles. (So if your cork is looking ready to fall apart into that dusty,…