This is a new one on me… tried to open a 16 D&R Shake Ridge first with a rabbit-style lever and couldn’t budge the cork, then tried with a (relatively high quality) corkscrew, and the corkscrew completely broke! What to do now??? The corkscrew is lodged in the cork in the neck of the bottle. I think I need the hot tong method!
Ah So
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Hey!
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But I agree.
Time to get out your drill…
The perfect excuse to do this:
Last time that happened to me I took the lodged corkscrew out with pliers (twisting little by little), and then used another corkscrew. But, a Durand may come in handy too.
Those Noma Corks are a bitch sometimes. Every time I open one of Hardy’s wines I cringe expecting my worm to break.
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Welcome to my world. I’ve lost two corkscrews to D&R wines. I only use Screwpull style corkscrews on them now. Probably going to snap one of those soon now that I have mentioned it.
You know what could also work that I hadn’t thought about for my first reply, one of those air pressure or air pump wine openers. I had one years ago and hated it because it required a lot of pumping with my thumb and took a while. I’d bet designs have improved in the last 20 years. And, as long as you don’t break the needle going in, it’s likely to do the deed.
Yep, happens. It was a knockoff but still surprising
I’d use tin snips to cut the cork screw flush to the top of the bottle (so the ah so can reach) and then get it out with an ah so … the corkscrew is toast, but the wine need not be.
I either used pliers to work the worm out and then ah so or just went straight to the ah so.
This is when you need the Midas touch.
Quick update - left it sitting upright for the past month, pulled it out tonight with an old ah-so, easy as can be. This is the 16 Shake Ridge and it is glorious, maybe the most “developed” Dirty & Rowdy I’ve had over the years.
Sledgehammer will take care of it.
They are BRUTALLY hard to open, especially at cellar temp. I accidentally used a coravin on one not long ago. Literally had to pull as hard as I possibly could to get the needle out (and I’m not a small guy). Good times 
Sounds like a terrible idea. Maybe fun with safety goggles and protective clothing, away from things that can stain and so forth. Maybe do it with the bottle at the bottom of a large trash can to contain all the glass shards.
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Couldn’t you shove the cork into the bottle and just decant the wine? seems like a young wine that wouldn’t hurt with some air?
My normal take a sledgehammer approach to every problem would likely have me grabbing that corkscrew wire with a pair of plyers and trying to just yank the cork out with brute force.
The one time this happened to me I was able to successfully drive a second worm down next to the first one and extract that way; granted, I went that way because I did not have an Ah-so available to me.