Bottle corking tool

If you're gentle, the cork should come out perfectly without any damage to the wine or the cork. Using the handle of a wooden spoon, gently push the cork into the wine bottle.

Put the coffee filter or strainer over the opening of another container. Pour the wine into the second container slowly, catching any loose cork in the coffee filter as you pour. You'll need a bike pump with a needle. Insert the needle into the cork until it's all the way through the other end. Gently pump the wine bottle with air, which will drive the cork upward.

Pull the cork out with your hand once it is pushed out enough. You don't want the cork to explode. Insert the object at a degree angle into the cork without cutting through it. Rotate the object, pulling the cork up and out as you do.

Exert careful force and take your time—let the cork come up as you rotate. Wrap the bottom of the bottle with towels or fabrics. Gently thump the bottom of the bottle against the wall.

Repeat being careful not to break the bottle until the cork is nearly out. Remove the cork with your hand. Don't try to get it all out at once! The key here is to move the cork a little at a time. Place the bottle into the shoe with the bottom resting where your heel normally is. Redlich Manufacturing Company. As of November 14, , the Sommer Faucet Co. French nineteenth-century corking machines on mortise and tenon framed wooden stands were popular during this time period. There were used for for both champagne and wine bottles.

It has a long handle that sends the plunger into a hole. The plunger handle is lowered. There is a gear located under the machine for raising and lowering the round base that holds the bottom of the bottle.

Someone would have sat on this at the winery, corking each bottle as it was handed to him. These corkers compress and drive the cork just like the hand corker, but they do it in one single action. You load the cork and pull the handle. As you start to pull down on the handle the cork is being compressed. This single, swift action makes the corking process move along a bit faster. Although it may appear to be complicated, it is actually quite easy to use.

Bottles are placed on the platform one at a time and a weighted lever cranks down to insert the cork. The lower basin collects any wine that may spill over in the process.

Made in the USA. Lever locks the bottle neck, compresses the cork, and drives it into the bottle in one motion. Wear and tear from age, rust here and there, patina. This tool has a chamber and you place the cork into it. The chamber is closed by bringing the handles together, and the cork is squeezed by hand pressure. Holding the handles closed with one hand and positioning the corker over the bottle, usually the other hand works a lever that drives the piston forward, driving the cork into the neck of the bottle.

I believe that the corker in the Wine History Project collection is missing the lever to drive the piston. Some plunger designs were difficult to use and took a lot of strength to forcefully plunge the cork into the bottle. One needed to simply add a cork, push the levers down, and the cork was inserted into the bottle. A perfectly corked bottle. Each corker was constructed of solid materials mostly steel and there were no flimsy joints or rivets, even when exerting pressure while corking.

Some found it to be easier to put it on a sturdy surface and maybe have someone hold the bottle so there was no movement. This is not the easiest device to use. I have found a few helpful points to assist with corking a bottle when using this tool.

This will help the corks set further into the bottle. Choose a corker. Consider how many bottles of wine you will make. For more extensive bottling efforts, invest in a larger lever corker available from online brewing supply shops.

Plastic varieties available for about the same cost, but get real corks to add that fine vineyard touch to your end product. Soak natural corks in a pan with 2 quarts of warm distilled water for 20 minutes.

Fill the clean wine bottles to 1 inch below where the bottom of the cork will be in the neck. Place the filled bottle into the corking device.