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Posted on November 12, 2019November 18, 2019

Cork Pops Waiter’s Ratchet Corkscrew

Many people, including some servers themselves, are intimidated or bewildered by so-called waiter’s corkscrews. That’s too bad, because once mastered they can be highly portable and simple to use. One such corkscrew is the Ratchet Corkscrew from Cork Pops. It is it is nicely designed and built like a tank. Perhaps too much so, because …

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A Note About Vintages

Although you will see vintage dates throughout Winervana, I don’t put too much importance on them.  Major producers these days strive for a consistent style, and largely succeed. For instance, when shopping for a particular wine, if you have a choice between a current release and one that’s a few years old, there will certainly be differences in price and the character of the wine.  But upon release, those two examples of the same wine are likely to be quite similar, especially for New World producers, who often enjoy  more reliably consistent weather than Old World producers do. (Of course, global climate change may disrupt things for everybody.)

Wine Enthusiast has an interesting post about this here.

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