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4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
 needle-pump cork puller Jan 30, 2010
By R. V. Russo
I was carefull not to call this Rocket Air Pump wine opener a "corkscrew," since it uses a needle to penetrate the cork and not a spiral screw.
This type of device has been around for many years, and I have used similar products before. The previous other brands of similar needle design all broke fairly quickly. As I have only used this Rocket model a few months, I cannot yet comment as to durability.
The product liability lawyers have "improved" the design as now the sharp needle is encased in a retractible hard plastic sleeve which protects the user from injury. The sleeve slides up around the pump handle as the needle penetrates the cork.
The needle penetrates corks fairly easily and just a few pumps up and down with the handle slowly eases the cork out of the bottle. For older wines with more fragile corks it does a much better job of removing the cork without either breaking it leaving pieces in the bottle than a conventional corkscrew.
There is a significant buildup of pressure in using the pump and one must be careful not to have the cork "pop" to vigorously.
The Rocket needle pump is definitely easier and more fun to use than a corkscrew. I would be careful keeping it away from children. The safety shield is probably a good thing, but children are very clever when it comes to possible misuse of sharp objects.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
works, but not great. Useful for older bottles Apr 18, 2010
By Adamg
"adamg"
Firstly I would never buy this product for opening younger bottles of wine. Many other openers are better and the air pump will spill wine if you pump in too much air, which is easy to do. If you think it is cool or you don't mind being very delicate with adding just the right amount of air, it will open younger bottles. For me it was not as easy as a screw pull. Having said that, I bought it because I was looking for something to help with older corks that could have issues related to either being deteriorated or 'stuck' in the bottle due to dryness. This product is a qualified success in those cases. What I find is that usually it will loosen an old cork making it much easier to remove the cork with a regular wine opening device like a decent cork screw. So buy it for help in opening older bottles with tough corks. For this situation it works better than any other product I have tried. Don't buy it to open the under 10 year old bottle.
3 of 4 found the following review helpful:
 PRODUCT WARNING - reports of bottles shattering Jan 01, 2011
By A. Cohn
on 12/30/10, another retailer, QVC, contacted everyone who bought this device (under the Skybar label) to tell them to stop using it. There have been reports of bottles shattering under the pressure used to expel the corks.
 not too awesome Aug 18, 2011
By P. Johnson
Person I bought it for said it did not work on a large wine bottle but did on a small one.
It works. Feb 24, 2011
By monkey doo
My dad asked me to find a wine bottle opener like this for opening old wines. I was little skeptical but I bought it for him. After using it though, I was presently surprised.
If you actually use it for a fairly recent bottle of wine, the cork doesn't stick to the bottle as much and it will just come right out after few pumps. It's actually cool seeing the cork magically pop itself out. Amazing.
But for older wines, you will need to pump a quite bit more. Since you have to pump perpendicular to the handle, it gets tiring pretty fast. That's my only negative comment about this product.
I'd suppose if the cork is really stuck to the bottle, then perhaps it could shatter the bottle if you pump like 1000 times, but I'd think that you will give up way before then and try for a regular cork screw...
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