More Corkscrew Chronicles: Amateur Wine Disasters

"Say It Ain't So, Pinot!"

This is probably why most people go out to eat for Valentine's Day. Another bottle of wine, another unqualified disaster salvaged into wine-chugged-from-a-Rubbermaid-jug. The perfect nightcap to an evening spent comparing packages of Filet Mignon at the local Kroger, calculating how much I'd save with my ill-begotten 10% discount on Kroger-brand lima beans, and scrounging for the cheapest package of tomatoes for my salad ($2.99! I can't believe I actually bought them...).

So anyways, we eat and then decide to partake in a bottle of wine. Given our previous track record, I was extra careful from the start...to no avail. Oh, well...at least it makes for a great story. Enjoy!

Maybe we should actually buy a bottle opener.

We watched a few choice episodes of MacGyver searching for ingenious ideas, and using only a rubber band and a thumb tack managed to rescue all the wine without removing the cork.

You can never be too careful - cork kills...or at least probably wouldn't taste very good.

Ah, the taste of victory!