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2. Port tongs - Wikipedia

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   The tongs are intended for use when the cork cannot be removed with a normal corkscrew, such as old corks that would break apart and crumble into the wine. [2] This is more common for high-alcohol fortified wines , such as port : the alcohol acts as a natural preservative, allowing the wine to be aged for decades.

3. Corkscrew - Wikipedia

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   A corkscrew is a tool for drawing corks from wine bottles and other household bottles that may be sealed with corks. In its traditional form, a corkscrew simply consists of a pointed metallic helix (often called the "worm") attached to a handle, which the user screws into the cork and pulls to extract it. Corkscrews are necessary because corks ...

4. Glossary of wine terms - Wikipedia

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   A tasting of a group of wines from the same vintage or representing the same style of wine (such as all Pinot noirs from different wineries in a region), as opposed to a vertical tasting which involves of the same wine through different vintages. In a horizontal tasting, keeping wine variety or type and wine region the same helps emphasize ...

5. Wine sales drying up as Americans turn elsewhere - AOL

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   Wine sales in the U.S. last year tumbled approximately 6% from 2023, according to data from the industry data group SipSource. ... which comes in a large bottle and may require a corkscrew or ...

6. Wine accessory - Wikipedia

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   A wine stopper is an essential wine accessory to close leftover wine bottles before refrigerating them. Wine stoppers are used because it is hard to put the original cork back into the bottleneck. Wine stoppers vary in shapes, sizes, and materials. The three typical types are the cork wine stopper, rubber wine stopper, and plastic wine stopper.

7. Mounted corkscrew - Wikipedia

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   Corks have been used to seal jars and bottles for over 400 years. [1] ( Modern, machine made bottles with threaded tops for screw caps date from the 1920s. [2]) Early glass bottles were cumbersome (and possibly dangerous, being hand-blown) to hold, and the simple “T” corkscrew required strength to use.