Maybe when it comes to opening a bottle, many wine lovers will immediately think of using a seahorse knife, but in fact, there is a lot of attention to opening a bottle of wine. First of all, due to the different air pressure in the bottle, the bottle opening methods of still wine and sparkling wine are very different; in addition, the bottle opening method is different depending on the sealing method (cork stopper, screw cap or glass stopper, etc.); , even if they are still wines, the corkscrews used for young wines and old wines are different.

Non-cork-sealed wines mostly use corks that are easy to open, such as screw caps or glass stoppers, and will not be explained in detail here. This article only describes wines sealed with corks.

First, the bottle opening operation of still wine

Normally, to open a bottle of still wine sealed with a cork, a special corkscrew is required. There are many types of corkscrews, including T-shaped corkscrews, butterfly corkscrews, rabbit ear corkscrews, hippocampus corkscrews and Ah-So corkscrews. Among them, the most common one is the seahorse corkscrew known as the "friend of the waiter", but when opening old wines, the Ah-So corkscrew is a more suitable choice.