Just imagine how frustrating it must be when you're ready to enjoy a glass of wine with joy, but the cork breaks when you open the wine, and half of it is still firmly stuck at the neck of the bottle. For drinkers who don't know how to save a broken stopper, this situation is even more of a headache. Today, the editor will give you a few tips to save the broken block, so that you can calm down and not worry.

1. Why does the blockage occur?

There are quality problems in the bottle opener, irregular bottle opening operation, lack of elasticity of the cork... There are many reasons for the broken cork, the most important of which are the following:

1. The bottle opening operation is not standardized enough, and the angle of the wine knife drilling into the wine stopper is too inclined or drilled to the edge of the bottle stopper;

2. The auger of the seahorse knife is not deep enough, and the stopper is broken due to excessive force when pulling out the wine stopper;

3. When the wine is stored without lying down, the wine cannot infiltrate the cork, or the environmental humidity is too low (the optimum environmental humidity for wine storage should be about 70%), which will cause the cork to be too dry, lose its elasticity and become fragile easy to break;

4. The sugar in sweet wines causes the stopper to stick to the bottle;

5. The wine is older, and the cork becomes too fragile during long-term aging.

2. What should I do if it is blocked?

1. Change the angle and re-drill the hippocampal knife

If most of the cork remains at the neck of the bottle after the cork is broken, our most commonly used seahorse corkscrew can still come in handy. The specific operations are as follows:

(1) Wipe off the sawdust on the bottle mouth with a clean cloth or paper towel to prevent the sawdust from falling into the wine when the wine is opened;

(2) Tilt the bottle body by 45 degrees, and drill the seahorse knife into it obliquely, so that the force point can be transferred from the cork to the bottle wall, so as to avoid pushing it into the wine when the wine knife is rotated;

(3) Carefully and slowly lift the cork, and at the same time closely observe the condition of the cork to avoid secondary breakage.

2. Use the Ah-So bottle opener

The Ah-So corkscrew is usually used to open old vintage wines. Its structure is very simple and consists of 2 iron pieces of different lengths. If the broken cork is crunchy and it is not advisable to drill into the auger again, try using the Ah-So corkscrew.

(1) Slowly insert the longer iron piece of the Ah-So bottle opener into a short section along the gap between the bottle cork and the bottle mouth, and then insert the shorter iron piece into the gap on the other side;

(2) Take turns to exert force on both sides, so that the two iron pieces are gradually deepened until the entire cork is clamped;

(3) Hold the handle, slowly rotate counterclockwise and apply upward force to gradually pull out the cork.

3. Air pressure bottle opener

The principle of the pneumatic corkscrew is to use the gas injected into the bottle to lift the cork. Its operation is very convenient, just need to remove the bottle seal, then insert the air needle into the bottle, and then inflate it like a bicycle tire, and then the residual bottle cork can be pushed out.

4. To die and then to live

If the above three methods can't solve the problem, then we can only "dead and live". First prepare a coffee filter (you can replace it with a new cheesecloth) and a clean empty wine bottle (you can replace it with a decanter), then clean the cork from the bottle and gently push the residual cork into the wine. Then tie the coffee filter paper to the mouth of the bottle and slowly pour the wine into the new container.