For The Love Of Port

Not sure if you've seen this one yet. Not a bad trick for younger bottles.

http://www.mirabeauwine.com/how-to-open ... corkscrew/

The bottle has to be tipped down enough that there is solid wine against the cork at time of impact. The bottle stops, the wine keeps moving forming a partial vacuum under the cork. Then the vacuum sucks the wine back, which hits the cork and drives it out a little way. Repeat until you can get hold of the cork and pull it out.

I expect that this method has little utility for VP drinkers. That nicely-settled layer of sediment would be thoroughly mixed into the port after treatment like that.

Peter W. Meek wrote:The bottle has to be tipped down enough that there is solid wine against the cork at time of impact. The bottle stops, the wine keeps moving forming a partial vacuum under the cork. Then the vacuum sucks the wine back, which hits the cork and drives it out a little way. Repeat until you can get hold of the cork and pull it out.

I expect that this method has little utility for VP drinkers. That nicely-settled layer of sediment would be thoroughly mixed into the port after treatment like that.

Yeah, but work great on a bottle of Tawny. And if it's got a t-cork, I can just visualize it shooting out like a rocket.

Andy Velebil wrote: Yeah, but work great on a bottle of Tawny. And if it's got a t-cork, I can just visualize it shooting out like a rocket.

No joke... am sure there will be plenty of wine spilled as people try this out!

Thinking of trying it w the next 1/2 of Moscatel de Setúbal I open...

Incidentally, this same effect is why cavitation (real cavitation, not just air entrainment) erodes boat propellors. Tiny bubbles (cavities) of vacuum form on the low-pressure side of high-performance boat propellors, and when they collapse, the water rushes back with enough impact to gouge tiny bits of metal from the surface of the propellor. The impact of an uncompressable liquid rushing back to fill a vacuum with suddenly no place to go is quite intense.

I saw this years ago, in the early days of Youtube. There have been several iterations since, this one is not as funny as some of those past versions.

Miguel Simoes wrote:Thinking of trying it w the next 1/2 of Moscatel de Setúbal I open...

Whose halves of Moscatel do you buy?

Edit: And why halves?

Alan McDonald wrote:

Miguel Simoes wrote:Whose halves of Moscatel do you buy?
Edit: And why halves?

Got them sort of by mistake. This retailer had "JMF Moscatel de Setubal Alambre 20 Year 2003 - 375 ml" for $8 and i figured i get some in hope i got the 500 ml Alambre 20 Yr. Instead got the regular "2003 JMF Moscatel de Setubal". (figured worth the shot as once got 3 bottles of 1999 Dow Bomfim VP for $12 from that retailer when they were labeling it 2009 Dow Bomfim VP - believe they had the Douro DOC in mind to begin with).

These were the first halves i ever got. No particular desire to buy more, just took a flier on this one.