- Striking, easy-to-use, powerful device pulls wine cork in 3 seconds
- Ruggedly constructed of polycarbonate and reinforced nylon
- Foilcutter, drip-stop ring, bottle sealer, wax remover, and extra worm included
- All items fit into padded, hinge-top storage case
- 10-year warranty
Product Description
Reproduce flawless openings with multiple tools. The ultimate all-in-one wine corkscrew set for all your wine service needs. You get everything you need for wine bottle opening and service in this convenient and affordable Rabbit Corkscrew set from Metrokane. The 6-piece corkscrew kit includes the world-famous Rabbit Corkscrew, foil cutter, drip-stop drip ring, worm, wine/champagne sealer, and wax remover. The Rabbit Corkscrew was redesigned with an all new precision metal gear mechanism for even smoother and more reliable wine bottle opening. Of all the corkscrews on the market, you won't find one better or more efficient This corkscrew is synthetic cork friendlyAmazon.com Review
A great gift for a wine lover, this powerful, award-winning tool effortlessly extracts the cork from any wine bottle in 3 seconds with simple lever action. Handles with comfortable rubberized padding easily clamp onto a bottle's neck; the lever drives the tough worm into the cork with a push and then pulls the cork out cleanly with a simple pull. Releasing the cork involves the same action, only with the handles clamped onto the cork. Ruggedly constructed of polycarbonate and reinforced nylon, the cork puller has the heft of a fine, precise high-tech tool and comes by its name, Rabbit, because it resembles a bunny's head. Metrokane corkscrews are independently tested for 20,000 cork pulls; tests assume replacement of the spiral after 1,000 pulls.
This model of the Rabbit has a velvety, silver finish, as do the four tools accompanying it. The tools include a squeeze-and-twist foil cutter to strip away the foil covering a cork, a drip-stop ring that fits onto any size wine bottle to prevent stains on table linen, a sealer that twists so tightly into any size bottle's neck it preserves even Champagne bubbles, and a "wax whacker" that flips the wax tablet off a wine cork. Also included is a replacement worm--the installed worm wears out after 20,000 or so corks. The Rabbit and tools all fit snugly into a padded storage case with a hinged lid. The cork puller carries a 10-year warranty against failure. --Fred Brack
Metrokane Rabbit Wine Opener Tool Kit, Silver
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I cannot provide a review for this item because it hasn’t arrived yet. I purchased it a month ago and it was supposed to be here in time for Christmas since it is a present for my dad. They told me it would be to me between the 18th and 23rd of December. It’s now the middle of January and I have written the company, but no one has gotten back to me.
DO NOT buy from this company!!!
I never received this product, and the distributor never returned any of my inquiries. This was ordered as a Christmas gift, so I was very dissapointed with the lack of responsiveness from both the company and Amazon. Although after 2 weeks of emails between the two, Amazon credited my account.
This seller sent an item that was damaged, the case was scuffed, the box was dented and the shrinkwrap torn. Their response? They aren’t liable for damage during shipping and I should file a claim with UPS. The problem is that the shipping container, itself, was not damaged. Seller wants me to pay for return shipping. Photos of damaged item to be posted shortly.
Won’t purchase from this seller again.
UPDATE: Amazon claims I must return this item at my expense and seller is not obligated to reimburse my shipping costs. So, I will be paying $7-8 and have nothing in return.
All you really need here is the corkscrew, but the other bits-foil cutter, stopper ecc. do make a more imposing gift. Be aware that the increased number of moving parts means that the Rabbit (and all its kin) are more likely to break than the simpler corkscrews.
Wine used to be stored in wood and sold by the pitcher, or bucket-full. Strong glass bottles came along in England in the 1660′s. At first, they were stoppered with glass, each stopper being ground individually to fit its bottle and then tied in place. Uniform plugs of cork gradually replaced the custom-tailored glass. The cork, exported from Portugal, was inserted for half its length in the bottleneck, and the consumer twisted it out.
The corkscrew appeared a few years later, at the end of the century, and corks could then be driven flush with the bottle’s neck.
We are a people with too much time on our hands so it’s not surprising that we have generated at least a hundred variations on the corkscrew. The only thing that matters is this: the business end of a corkscrew, called the worm, should be a wire formed in a spiral. (See illustration.) Corkscrews with stamped worms that resemble wood screws should be rejected, shunned, even anathematized. Here’s why. The wire displaces the least amount of cork and gives the greatest amount of lifting surface. The stamped worm drills a hole in the cork and offers only its edges for lift. If the cork is old, or soft, this latter arrangement can leave you with a half a crumbled cork in the bottle. The wire is slim and makes a spiral that’s wide enough to slip a paper match inside. The tip is pointed and sharp.
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Having seen The Rabbit at a wine tasting, I was glad to find it on Amazon so conveniently from the Metrokane site. I’ve researched it in many catalogs & stores,purchased it here immediately — along with a fine Champagne opener — both saving me shipping! As a new Amazonian, I’m sure I’ll be uncorking a fine “Marilyn Merlot” I’ve been looking forward to tasting, very shortly. I’ve been down the broken cork path before on certain bottles…now the mood won’t be broken.
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