MIKA27 Posted July 28, 2015 Share Posted July 28, 2015 How The Best Restaurants Open Old Bottles Of Wine Here’s how one of the best restaurants in the world, Eleven Madison Park, opens a bottle of wine when the wine is especially old and the cork is possibly all crumbly: they use burning hot metal tongs to heat up bottle so it can be ‘magically’ opened from the neck, avoiding the cork. Business Insider made the video where Jonathan Ross, a sommelier at Eleven Madison Park, shows (and explains!) how (and why) it’s done this way. Pretty cool video 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordAnubis Posted July 28, 2015 Share Posted July 28, 2015 Love a good science video Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Gargett Posted July 28, 2015 Share Posted July 28, 2015 interesting stuff. i have only ever seen it done (or heard of it being done) with old ports. i have mates with port tongs and for old bottles, it does work. never needed to do the cold brush thing though. interesting. he uses a young bottle there but if he had an old bottle, it is likely he would pour it into the decanter either extremely carefully or with the use of a machine that very slowly tips it over - you wind a lever. but either way, it would be done over a candle which would light up the neck. because port bottles are so dark, very hard to see when the wine is giving way to sediment and a candle can do that. depending on the port and age, can leave an inch or so of sediment in the base. also, with older bottles, if the somm knew he was to be opening it, he would have it standing up for a few days to try and have as much sediment as possible sink to the bottom. . thanks for posting that. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremy Festa Posted July 28, 2015 Share Posted July 28, 2015 Pretty cool. Nice little ritual. I prefer the syringe pump thingies. So easy and quick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnS Posted July 28, 2015 Share Posted July 28, 2015 I find that amazing. You'd think there would be tiny shards of glass when the neck comes off that way! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jabster Posted July 28, 2015 Share Posted July 28, 2015 That was totally satisfying. I wonder if prez has a similar routine for aged boxes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Gargett Posted July 28, 2015 Share Posted July 28, 2015 from the 80's. if your cork breaks... http://www.decanter.com/videos/how-to-videos/how-to-handle-a-wine-episode-2/?pid=267923?utm_source=Eloqua&utm_medium=email&utm_content=news+alert+link+28072015&utm_campaign=Newsletter-28072015 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Gargett Posted July 28, 2015 Share Posted July 28, 2015 I find that amazing. You'd think there would be tiny shards of glass when the neck comes off that way! seems to work, though you'd think so. slicing the top off a champers bottles certainly leaves no glass at all, though a dangerously sharp edge. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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