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Mike Supple from SuppleWine.com demonstrates the steps for opening a bottle of wine with a rabbit bottle opener.
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Mike: I'm Mike Supple with SuppleWine.com, and today I'm going over how to open a bottle of wine with a rabbit bottle opener. This isn't the rabbit that you're used to seeing on HBO's series...what is that business...what is that crap called Matt?

Matt: Sex in the City.

Mike: There you go, Sex in the City. It's a rabbit wine opener. This is what's called the rabbit. Let me show you on this bottle of wine here how you open it up.

The first thing you want to do is get rid of the foil capsule. This particular rabbit wine opener comes with a little foil cutter. It's got a couple of circular blades here. It sits right on top of the foil. You just squeeze the cutter, spin the bottle around, and it comes right off with a nice clean cut. It exposes the cork, or in this case the synthetic cork. Synthetic corks can be rather difficult to open with other types of corkscrews, so the rabbit is good because it gives you a little more force, a little fulcrum.

You take the rabbit opener. Put it around the bottle, rest the worm (screw) on top, squeeze tight, and then you just take the handle up. Keep squeezing tight. Take the handle the other direction. You want to hold tight because it will slide around, particularly with synthetic corks. It takes a lot of force, so hold tight so you don't send the bottle flying. Pull the cork up and out; it pops out nice and easy.

To get the cork off, push the handle down again, squeeze tight, pull the handle back up, and the cork comes out. And your bottle's open!