Metrokane Vertical Rabbit Lever Style Corkscrew with Foil Cutter, Gun Metal Grey
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Product Summary
Manufacturer: MetrokaneBrand: Metrokane
Model: 6904
Color: Grey
Product features:
- Pull corkscrew stands up on a bottle and operates vertically
- Start with handle raised, place opener over the bottle, push down the lever and lift back up again. This action lifts the cork from the bottle in just 3 seconds. Simply lower the handle again, lift it up and lower one last time to eject the cork.
- Chrome plated die cast metal lever
- Color is hi-sheen racing finish in gun metal grey; comes with foil cutter and extra worm
- 10 yr warranty
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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of Metrokane Vertical Rabbit Lever Style Corkscrew with Foil Cutter, Gun Metal Grey
Customer Review: Works well until it breaks after 400-500 bottles
Summary: 3 Stars
I've owned two rabbit style corkscrews (this one and an earlier "three arm" model) and both have suffered the same fate: after a year or two, a piece breaks in the mechanism that positions the screw plunger. This results in the screw going down at a random angle that presses the cork down instead of entering it. The cork pushes into the wine, which has to be decanted, and the corkscrew appears to be permanently broken.
I'm a hobbyist winemaker, and between that hobby and occasional tasting parties, I open more bottles than most people, probably 400 or so a year. My most recent rabbit model (the one here) lasted exactly 14 months, so I estimate perhaps 500 corks. It's possible that replacing the screw wire earlier would help, but I have no real indication of that.
Apart from reliability, how well does it work? Great -- as other reviews note, you simply clamp the sleeve over a bottle, swing the arm in and back out, and the cork pops out. In my experience, the corks never break and they come out cleanly and looking nice if you like to save them.
There are occasional issues with some bottles and corks: flared-rim bottles can be a problem (and may not even fit, if the lip is very wide). Also, if the cork is extra long, as with some high-end Italian wines for instance, then it may not pull out all the way and a bit of wiggling and tugging will be needed to retrieve it. I don't recommend it for synthetic or agglomerate corks, either, as they can be very tight and might strip the teflon off the wire. Overall, I'd guess that if you drink wines at about $10 or higher, then it should work well for 95% of them.
Conclusion: if you usually open a couple of bottles per week, this should last 5 years or so and serve you well. If you open more than that, it might break sooner than you'd like. I'm going to try a couple of other options before deciding whether to get a third rabbit.
(As for the alternatives: "waiter style" corkscrews are a non-starter for me because they tend to go sideways and break corks. The prong types are way too difficult and tend to push corks in. Fixed screw types (the t-shaped kind) are hard on corks and take too much effort. Swing-arm types are OK although the screws are often too big, so I'm going to experiment with variants there, along with the continuous pull types, that have differing screw mechanisms.)
Description of Metrokane Vertical Rabbit Lever Style Corkscrew with Foil Cutter, Gun Metal Grey
The newest design from Metrokane in the Rabbit?family of products. This new Vertical Rabbit?is as easy as placing the opener over the bottle and lowering and raising a lever. It pulls a cork in 3 seconds and ejects it immediately with the lowering and raising of the handle. Constructed using a chrome plated zinc dye cast handle, it has a 10 yr warrantly, Hi-Sheen racing-car finish in gun metal grey.Corkscrews & Openers
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