# The history of the wine corkscrew

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [November 7, 2014, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-history-of-the-wine-corkscrew/703984 "2014-11-07T14:48:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2014, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-history-of-the-wine-corkscrew/703984/1 "2014-11-07T14:48:22Z")

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A lovely [little article](http://vinepair.com/wine-blog/history-of-the-wine-corkscrew/) I thought I’d share.

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> The corkscrew, like so many other inventions, was borne out of necessity. For as long as we have sold wine in glass bottles sealed with cork stoppers, consumers have struggled to easily remove those corks. As soon as the earliest glass bottles arrived in late seventeenth-century England, inventors began dreaming up instruments to ease the removal of corks.

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**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2014, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-history-of-the-wine-corkscrew/703984/2 "2014-11-07T15:13:09Z")

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Nice article. But I think they missed the fact that corks are a dying closure and before long all wines, no matter the quality, will be sealed with closures other than corks.