Awesome Corkscrews

Opening a bottle with a shotgun seems like overkill. The only way that makes sense is with this bar tool that looks like a 12-gauge shotgun shell. The red polyethylene case houses a corkscrew for wine bottles and a bottle opener. Made by Old Southern Brass, which donates a portion of profits to charities benefiting U.S. military veterans and their families.

Premium accessory maker Craighill teamed up with sommelier André Hueston Mack to create the Best Wine Key. This precision-engineered tool opens bottles with smoothness and elegance. It features a stainless steel body and corkscrew, textured red PPE handle scales, and a folding serrated blade for removing foil. It’s also got a sturdy bottle opener built in.

You never know when you might want to pop open a bottle of wine. KeySmart’s stainless steel wine accessory puts a corkscrew in your pocket. Its cap unscrews to expose its twisty part and acts as a handle for leverage. It’s also got a notch on its side for opening beer and soda bottles. Great for picnicking!

Blacksmith Mark Aspery walks us through the process of hand-forging a traditional corkscrew. He starts out with a rod of 3/8″ square chrome-molybdenum steel, which he hammers, stretches, bends, and twists into the final shape. Anyone got a good bottle of wine to test it on?

OTOTO makes a variety of playful kitchen accessories. The Vino works just like any other corkscrew, only it looks like a bat flapping its wings while it opens your wine bottles. We like to imagine it’s a vampire bat, and that isn’t red wine, but blood in the glasses.

The capable Armbar Cork from Gerber is a neat, pocket-sized multitool to handle all sorts of small tasks. It has a 2 ½” blade that opens with one hand, scissors, hammer, pry bar, foil cutter, and can/package opener, plus a corkscrew and bottle opener to wet your whistle. Comes in three colors.

Have a firefighter in the family? These bar tools from Halligan Bottle Openers make a great gift for our valiant first responders. The set includes a bottle opener that looks like a tiny Halligan pry bar, and a corkscrew that resembles a pickaxe. They come with red or black handles, and can be personalized for $10 extra.

This handy shark-shaped bar tool is ready to chomp down and pop open beer and soda bottles, and its head doubles as a corkscrew, so it opens wine bottles too. Available in brass, copper, or chrome finishes.