Screwpull Wine Opener
by Kate Heyhoe
Don't look like a putz by using a poor quality wine opener for your wine and cheese party. Forget broken corks, chunks of floating debris and jagged foil cuts by using the Screwpull Lever Model LX (sounds like a luxury car doesn't it?). I've used the plastic Screwpull models in the past, and let's face it: plastic is plastic and it breaks—but not this solid metal model. One swing of the handle and the Teflon coated screw effortlessly twists through the cork, then pull the handle back to release the cork. Easy as pie - even for computer-junkie, carpel-tunnel-plagued wine lovers like me.
It comes with a foil cutter that really works, and I recommend getting the special stand to hold the Screwpull Lever—without it, the opener can be cumbersome and looks like a Medieval torture device when resting idly on your counter.
The lever is shown in several positions in the time-lapse photo accompanying this column. The foil cutter is shown on the bottom right.
Made by Le Creuset, the Screwpull Lever Model LX bears a suggested retail price of $140 and the stand goes for $35 (new hi-tech patterned models cost $180). Available in most better department stores and cookware stores. Put this on your wine-loving Santa's list! (Why do you think his nose is so red anyway?)
Wine & Cheese-Spread Party
Introduction
Fred McMillin's Wine
Picks
Recipes:
Creamy
Gouda-Horseradish Spread
My Blue Heaven
Spread
Gift Ideas:
Screwpull
Lever Model LX and Stand
KitchenAid Little Ultra
Power Food Processor
December Kate's Global Kitchen
December 5:
Wine &
Cheese-Spread Party
Fred McMillin's Wine
Picks
Recipes:
Creamy
Gouda-Horseradish Spread
My Blue Heaven
Spread
Gift Ideas:
Screwpull
Lever Model LX and Stand
KitchenAid Little Ultra
Power Food Processor
December 12:
Recipes:
Bengal Lancers
Beef Curry Cubes
Saffron Basmati Rice
Cranberry-Golden Raisin
Chutney
Minty Raita-Style Cole
Slaw
Gift Suggestion:
Wusthof-Trident Mezzaluna
December 19:
Christmas
Weekend Salmon Gravlax
...and Last Minute Gift Suggestions
December 26:
Festive but Faux Caviars
Exquisite Eggplant Caviar
Lone Star Caviar
Mediterranean Black Olive Caviar
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