Ah-So Wine Opener Corkscrew Wine Bottle Opener Two-Prong Cork Puller

I had seen waiters open wine bottles with this wine bottle opener, but I never had one myself- until I purchased a case of wine from 2011. The old corks were starting to fall apart, and my usual corkscrew was breaking and removing only about half of them, leaving the rest in the bottle neck. I read that this kind of corkscrew works on old corks, and it does! Easy to master, super affordable, and no more half corks to try to get out of, or push into, the bottle. 5 stars!

Works great- easy to insert- perfect for professionals and older bottles. The BEST part is it is not confiscated by security at the airport! I travel for work in the wine industry and keep this handy in my bag at all times. Plus, people new to wine are always impressed when someone uses this tool!! I think it’s why it’s called an AH So… They say, AH! so THAT’S what that’s used for!!

If you’re a wine drinker & have vintage wines in your cellar an Ahso is a must. We keep one at home & have one in our wine bag we use to take a bottle to restaurant. We rarely find restaurants have one on hand, even high end ones. It saves an older cork from possibly crumbling or worse only partially coming out.It’s so easy to use, even easier than a corkscrew!

Over 40 years ago my then-Significant-Other got us an Ah-So-style wine opener. It worked well, and appealed to my compulsive preference for doing no harm, allowing a cork to be pulled with almost no harm to the cork. I’ve been separated from that ah-so opener (and from the then-SO) for 35 years, recently thought to try another ah-so opener, see if it was as good as I remembered. The short answer is, not quite as good as I remembered, and not really as good as a regular wing-style corkscrew.I chose this E&EY brand of Ah-So opener to try simply because it had relatively good reviews here on Amazon, and because it had a good, low price. And it seems to be perfectly well made, nothing at all wrong with the design and construction of the opener itself. I know the prongs on a lot of these openers rust a bit over time, that’s always a risk with the spring steel (not stainless), especially when it regularly gets damp as a wine opener does; our old one got a bit rusty after some years, maybe this new one will eventually rust some too, but certainly not yet.However, using this Ah-So took more time and effort and attention than I remembered. (We bought a corked bottle only to test this opener.) I’m sure I’m using it correctly and well, but, while inserting it, it kept incidentally pushing the cork down the neck of the bottle, to where I had to stop inserting the opener and instead twist and lift to bring the cork up until the prongs pull out, then return to inserting the prongs. Takes like 3 rounds of this to remove the one cork. Meanwhile the upper/outer edges of the cork are crumbling some under all the stress, and the resulting cork crumbs have to be kept cleared away from the lip of the bottle if they’re not to fall in when the cork finally comes out.Not really worth it to my mind. Better/faster/easier just to go with the traditional, wing-style corkscrew wine opener.Better still, just screw all this obsolete nonsense with wine bottles closed/sealed with corks, instead just get wine with screw-on closures, way better in all respects.Hard to know for sure how to rate this E&EY Ah-So opener, which is a perfectly fine ah-so opener, at a great price, but, as such, not as effective as a wing-style corkscrew, which, as such in turn, is not as effective as a screw-on top. I reckon I’ll rate this E&EY Ah-So a non-committal 4 stars, and meanwhile hope that wine corks and cork-openers all just fade away soon.

Originally saw this for the first time being used at a wine tasting place. Very good to have for wine enthusiasts. Makes a great gift too!

I bought this because I have some older bottles of wine I bought cases of years ago. Even though I stored them on their sides, many of the corks have dried out and a regular corkscrew causes the corks to break. It becomes annoying to get the cork out, and then you end up with pieces you have to filter out. So I bought one of these cork pulls. Not as fast or easy to use as a good corkscrew -- but it worked perfectly with one of these old bottles! Seems solidly put together. Not lightweight or plastic.

Bought to replace a Monopol cork puller that broke after many years. Originally gave one star because it didn't work on the first bottle I tried to open; I couldn't get the prongs to slip in between the cork and the bottle neck. But it worked on the second bottle, so... 3 stars.

We use this whenever the cork breaks in a wine bottle...it's terrific.