Okay I have been wondering for a while and now I have to ask. Aside from Frenchy and his love of wine, what are you people using your corkscrews for on your SAKs? Now I did see an episode of McGiver where he drilled his SAK corkscrew in to a wall and then used it as a hold for scaling the wall, but somehow I doubt the people of ETS are attempting that. <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

It's useful for holding the little eyeglass screwdriver.

Like it or not, even Frenchy might not need his corkscrew in a few years time. A lot of the new world vinters are using screw caps* (or even worse, plastic cork-like stoppers) instead of corks. Mainly to save money on corkage/spoilage.
Quite a lot of the French vinters still cling to tradition, but economics will surely outweigh any snob value attached to the humble, endangered cork.

* They don't call it "screw caps" - sounds to common - but I can't remember the true word. It amounts to the same product though.

Took me a bit. But it seems this has been discussed to death in this thread.

no comment !

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Cork comes from a species of oaktree. It is a renewable resource. The harvesters get to work outside in the sunshine. Plastic is a petrochemical product produced inside concrete buildings under flourescent lighting. I never came to terms with the 20th century, and now this 21st aesthetic insult. <img src="/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> I have been slowly cache'ing a modest collection of decent wines. They have corks and eventually I will buy a fancy sommallier's tool with decorker and blade to cut the foil on a long chain. It will go nicely with my mushroom hunter's knife and picnic basket Opinel. To paraphrase Charles Heston " FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS." <img src="/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" />

The corkscrew is also useful for untying knots in small to medium diameter cordage...

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Very interesting and entertaining. Thanks for bringing that old thread to my attention. Now of course I am opening the only bottle of red wine in the house. Suddenly I got a craving... imagine that. <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> I don't own a SAK with a corkscrew but I have some nice corkscrews in my kitchen drawer which dispatched the cork quite well. <img src="/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" />

You have my sympathies...
Culture is slowly being replaced by economics...
Got me looking for a quote.

"The Alliance for Progress is an alliance between one millionaire and many beggars."

Fidel Castro (1926– )

I think that fits.

California wine .... with a real cork. Just FYI. <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />