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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,…

The Durand was developed by a wine collector in the USA who was fed up with the crumbling corks of his old treasures. Today, the Durand is the benchmark. It is not…

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.