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Step 1
Remove any covering over the cork. Most wine bottles will have an aluminum or plastic cover over the mouth and neck. If you don't have anything sharp that can tear the cover, you can eventually work it open using just your fingernails.
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Step 2
Wrap the base of the wine bottle in the towel. The towel is only there to preserve the surface you'll be striking.
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Step 3
Find a solid wall or other vertical surface on which you can pound a wine bottle over and over. Wood cabinets and dry wall are not the best options. The most ideal surfaces are brick or cinder block. In fact, it's entirely possible this trick was invented in prison.
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Step 4
Strike the bottom of the bottle against the wall rhythmically. It will take awhile for anything to happen, but if you find the right rhythm, the pressure of the liquid slamming against the cork will cause it to gradually move.
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Step 5
Once the tip of the cork protrudes from the bottle, bite it with your teeth and pull.
Comments
soanyway said
on 1/5/2009 My luck the bottle will break! Ha interesting concept though! Thanks for the tip. I have recom'd you
Elfenaura said
on 1/14/2008 Interesting. Gee - it sounds like an experiment needs to be done to see if the wine 'suffers' from this beating. I'm willing to be a guinea pig. I'll get two identical bottles of wine, open one this way and use a corkscrew on the other. Then I'll try glasses of both to see if there's a difference. It may take several glasses of wine to adequately perform this experiment - and maybe more bottles of wine. Hmmm. Sounds like a party to me.
JoeRivera said
on 1/9/2008 This is a bind I have definitely found myself in and with no way except to push the cork into the bottle. But for that you still need a knife or something.Thanks to you if I ever find myself with a bottle of wine and no corkscrew..I'll know exactly what to do.
Keyguy242 said
on 12/31/2007 Ive often resorted to trying to smash the top off. This leaves glass in your gut.
mhhx said
on 12/31/2007 Surprising method. Seems to work very well. But: never do this with really good wine. Never.