( 155 reviews )
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Posted: Aug 14 2009
I got this because one of my friends had this and I fell in love with it. Now my husband loves it too! It's just too easy and doesn't take up any more room on the counter top than the Rabbit cork screw. There is never bits of cork floating in my wine anymore and it will never destroy a cork. And it's cheap!!
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Posted: Jul 24 2009
The Oster Electric Wine Opener is the latest fad gift that gets exchanged between my little wine drinking clique. Everyone loves it so if you're looking for just the right gift for a wine drinker who doesn't already have one: go for it. I found it easy to use - just one button to get the cork out of the bottle and another button to get the cork out of the opener. It is a cordless rechargeable product so you don't have to do the pulling yourself, just let the opener do all the work. The downsides are similar with most cordless rechargeable products: the power is weak so it isn't great on a stuck cork and it can be difficult to center the corkscrew which can result in a lot of broken corks when used for the first few times or when your friends want to have a turn with it at a party. There are lots of wine openers in this price range. Of the many, I would not choose this for myself but I think many people love the simplicity and novelty of it which I totally respect.
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Posted: Jul 13 2009
This gizmo simply didn't work for us, and we didn't give up on it easily. It almost never did anything more than halfway extract corks before it would first jam up... and then the motor would stop working. The only time it successfully extracted a soft cork, the cork immediately jammed up inside the gizmo when we tried to eject it... and the motor stopped working. We returned to the Amazon reviews for either empathy or advice, and found both: 1. Keep the gizmo and the neck of the bottle perfectly aligned in a straight line. 2. Hold the gizmo in one hand and the bottle in the other. 3. Extract the cork without twisting or tilting either bottle or gizmo. Didn't work. Even if the gizmo actually managed to extract a cork, inevitably the cork would get jammed up inside the gizmo's neck, and have to be twisted out with a pair of needle nose pliers. Sigh... YMMV.
