WE HAVE A HISTORY WITH THESE TYPE OF OPENERS
This is my 4th wine opener of this type. We have had friends buy them for us. Sometimes at garage sales. Since we drink wine weekly, and most of them still have corks, not twisting your wrist so extremely to open a bottle is a nice thing.
OTHER MODELS DO NOT SEEM VERY DURABLE
We often wondered why restaurants did not use these type of opener and after our first two broke, realized why. They are not make for the long haul. Well this one seems to be.
PREFERRED GRIP
What we like about this one, is the grip, the one handed initial grip. You hold it upright, place above a bottle with your left hand and grip with that hand. Then you pull down the lever with your right. Some bottle openers (the Rabbit), you need to pull two handles horizontally into the bottle to hold the top. There is just too much going on there. Then you lift up. It’s funny, but this one always makes the cork pop. Never had the others do that. Once the bottle is open, you release the bottle, allow the lever to go down and pull up again. This releases the cork and you are done.
SOLID FEEL
The chrome surface and heavier feeling components make this feel like an opener that will last a while. We may be opened 20 or so bottles with this so far. Other openers have started to fall apart at this point, so we have high hopes for this one.