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 wonderful object whose implied intent—the safe removal of vintage wine corks from aged bottles—implies the sort of room one very much wishes to haunt.
I am referring to The Durand, a wine opening device that retails for $145. With apologies to the melon baller and the hydrogen rod, it is perhaps the greatest single-use utility object in the world today.
By Jordan Michelman