How to open a screw-cap wine bottle that won’t budge
When I tried to remove Australia and Spanish wines, I made the whole tin lid out of the bottle. It has a good taste, but is that a common problem?
–BB, Potts Point, Sydney
At least you managed to open the bottles. Another problem with these screw covers: sometimes they refuse to bud, which is impossible to open.
This usually results in a “waiter’s friend” clutch of using a knife or a knife to cut the line that needs to be broken when you remove the lid – and sometimes results in blood loss.
Happily, this is not a common problem, but I witnessed desperate people to pierce the door with a sudden to reach the valuable fluid inside.
Both problems have the same reason: the limitation machine in the bottling line could not form holes in the lid that allowed to break down when you apply the pressure in the opposite clockwise. Probably, the closing machine had to be set. Maybe the person he had to watch threw out for a smoke.
At least in your case, the cover and collar appeared easily and wine was not affected. This means that the seal under the lid is unreachable and the air does not come in.
If you look at a bottle whose screw cover is not intact, you will notice a deep recess surrounding the collar just below the hole. This holds the collar of the lid connected to the bottle when removing the lid. If the capping machine cannot make this recess properly, the entire lid and collar may slide.
The screw caps have a great seal and rarely a mistake for my experience. They are rarely not perfect. Mushrooms are much more lottery.
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