66

The

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Tire Bouchon Ariane

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is bargain priced at FF69.

There is a built-in foil cutter at the base of the high-

impact resin frame. Once the foil is removed, the collar is

placed over the neck of the bottle and a two finger twist

will easily drive the fine coated worm into the cork.

Continuous turning will extract the cork into the frame.

The cork is removed by unscrewing the handle and then

tapping the cork out of the frame with the worm tip.

Unfortunately, this last action could over time cause

some distortion in the worm but overall the corkscrew

would be a faithful friend for many wine openings.

Birambeau corkscrews are blistered packed for

convenient, visible display in retail stores.