I have spent some time in my youth in the alps with Swiss farmers. The only tools they ever used on their SAKs (and yes, they all carried one) were the main knife blade for cutting up cheese and speck, and the corkscrew for opening bottles of the local red which would accompany them on any trip to check on the flock - and which I was usually tasked to carry :mad:.
Yep, this. I keep a good SAK in my travel bag. Corkscrew works great. Hate to be somewhere with a bottle of wine and no way to open it. And don’t tell me to pound it with a shoe. I tried that once. It works (depending on the shoe and the type of cork) but it’s a super duper major pain in the ass and takes forever.
“Mr. Khrushchev! Open Up That Bottle Of Wine…!” 
You can open a bottle of wine by pounding it with a shoe? 
Well I’ll be damned. But that guy makes it look easy.
I once was desperate to open a bottle of wine and the only thing I had that was remotely useful was a cordless drill and a set of bits. I figured I could drill into the cork and pull, Presto!
But I was drunk/high/tripping and was entertaining a very pretty lady.
I drilled (the cork) off-center, breaking the bottle’s neck and spraying wine all over the kitchen cabinets (I was renting, thank god). I managed to save three quarters of the bottle of wine, pouring it through my MrCoffee filter.
I eventually realized some of the stains on my shirt were blood, not wine. A small piece of schrapnel-glass nicked my neck. The pretty lady made it all better.
Good times!
I’ve used Count Blucher’s stunt before. The usual response, however, is if I don’t have a corkscrew, I drink something other than wine. Easy-peasy.
See, this is why you should just snort heroin.
Back when I did some Coke, you’d be surprised how often I’d find myself without a razor blade. Or a flat surface. And back then we didn’t have an Internet. Life was awful, what with the chunky Coke and all.
ETA: fuckin spellchecker, it was cocaine, not Coca-Cola. No need for caps.
It ain’t. In real life one cannot turn off the camera and start again and again and again until it works.
Believe it or not I was shown the technique way back in the early 80’s at a survival in-service training. Showed us how to start a fire without matches, open a can without an opener, what to do if we fall through the ice into water, etc… All little things you hope you never have to use because they are easier said than done.
Or bring it in a Spanish wineskin, and see how far away you can hold it while squirting it in your mouth. Easier-peasier, and fun too.
That’s my favorite line from The Sun Also Rises.
I have to give you street cred:
No one would ever think wine, broken glass, power tools, bleeding neck injuries and romance went together.
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I have carried a pocketknife of some kind since I was in grade school. I don’t even think about it, it’s just always with me. I did (finally) learn to put it in my checked luggage when I fly somewhere, but still occasionally get caught unaware and lose a good knife. The most recent was a Gerber Dime few weeks ago at an MLB game. Just today reordered a replacement.
Same here. Whenever I travel, before leaving the house my wife calls out, “Weapons check!”
About the corkscrew to untangle a knot, one key for it being good for that is that it doesn’t have a sharpened edge so as to not cut the string.
I’ve had my Victorinox Champion since 1980. But it is not my everyday knife - too bulky. My everyday knife is the Victorinox Nomad: Victorinox Picknicker in black - 0.8353.3. Perfect for me because it is comfortable in my pocket and has a longer, locking blade, and the screw driver locks also, and because of the corkscrew.
Note that if you want the small jeweler’s screwdriver, then as long as your SAK has a corkscrew to hold it conveniently, you can just buy the accessory, $3 at a shop like this: Victorinox Swiss Army Knife Mini Screwdriver – Swiss Knife Shop.
I only buy Swiss Army knives with a corkscrew. It’s not just for camping, a pocket knife is a great tool to have. If you go on a picnic, out on a boat, wherever and you want a bottle of wine, you have an opener.
And none of the SAK models come with a coke spoon. 
I just happen to live in Minneapolis MN, a short drive from the Mall Of America and its Victorinox store. I have my eye on a couple of SAKs in the $50 - $75 range.
A man would need some special pants to carry all of this ironmongery.
I’m not sure why I like Champions so much. Nostalgia? Mine lived on my belt for so long back in the '80s that it just became my favourite SAK. I’ve thought about getting the little screwdriver for the Champion I use, but it just doesn’t seem right. (And I have the two Swiss Champs.)