In case you were wondering how to open a 1945 Port

Aug 25, 2019 4:31 AM

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Drill out the old cork. Easy to strain out cork chunks...

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

O bloody hell! couldn't u just strain the pieces of cork rather than have super tiny pieces of glass in your drink?

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Kiwi ingenuity!!

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I saw this done with really old Bordeaux at EMP once. Awesome and slightly more professional than this ;)

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

The suspense was killing me...

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

That's just plain fucking stupid. Why risk getting glass in there when you can simply remove the cork.

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Push the old corkscrew in and immediately pour it into glasses through gauze. There solved it.

6 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 3

Just smash it on the edge of the table. Same result and you look like a pirate if you say "AAARRRRGGGGHHHH - Hard to port laddie"

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Didn’t they just crack them open on the skulls of commies and Natzis and drink it, glass and all, back in the day?

6 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

wouldn't introducing all that heat be bad for the drink?

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Heat is introduced higher than a level of a drink is. Glass is a very bad conductor of heat. Which is why it breaks, BTW.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Bro you are like the king of spreading bullshit. Wine is topped off to the top. Glass is extremely good at holding heat. Google quartz

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Why not push the cork into the bottle?

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yes, that’s neat, but can anyone show me how to open this bottle of 2018 Red Wine from Aldi?

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

2 options. Either drink dried cork or shattered glass.

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

He should've just bought a fresher bottle. Duh /S

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OMG Dave and Bill. So young! :D

6 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

It’s my beer!

6 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

It'll get you drunk

6 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

NO I CANT STOP YELLING! HAVENT YOU SEEN MY MOVIES!?

6 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Bill burr?

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6 years ago (deleted Jan 27, 2021 1:35 AM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

Bill Burr worked on the Chappelle Show

6 years ago | Likes 22 Dislikes 0

“And then his wife threw her titties in my hands... it was weird your honor”

6 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Fact. He wrote some stuff and acted in Chapelle show.

6 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

He was in the reverse sketch with tron getting off easy and white dude getting railed by system. Burr was a cop in the sketch

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Looks like a Kiwi no 8 fence wire solution to a drinking problem.

6 years ago | Likes 62 Dislikes 0

I was looking for some proof thye were kiwi, dunno how I missed the shirt AND the fern behind them haha

6 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

I was wondering which version of English this was...

6 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

The best english

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

I kept getting confused because i couldnt place the accent!! But now i realize it was because they dont have one to me, they sound normal

6 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 0

Same! Then I realised he had an NZ map on his shirt

6 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Even that just seems too normal to notice

6 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

It's a brand of beer called no.8 wire for anyone interested. They do lots of tasty stuff!

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

No. 8 wire is fencing wire which has reached legend status in NZ for its versatility. It's been used for everything.

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Uhm, I'm a kiwi and that shirt is specifically for the brewery brand. https://8wired.co.nz/, the brand's name comes from the no 8 wire

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Thing but the shirt itself is for the brewery...

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

That bottle of port is around £7-£900. I would love to taste it

6 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

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6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Tastes like broken glass.

6 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

Like a true kiwi, he using number 8 wire, whilst wearing a number 8 wire t-shirt. Probably all black underpants too.

6 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Probably some Red Bands there somewhere too.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

How was it ?

6 years ago | Likes 70 Dislikes 1

Old

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Porty

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The portiest

6 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Sharp

6 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

No one lived to tell!

6 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

I want to know as well

6 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

guess it tastes like Victory

6 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Probably like the worst vinegar you've ever had

6 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

*how much was it?

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Glassy

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

to drunk to reply to you.

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

What about the glass fragments that most certainly fell inside when the top broke off

6 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 0

Just a little abrasive cleaner for your gut.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Delicious glass shard seasonings.

6 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Makes the port spicy.

6 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

These all fall to the bottom and are left there when the wine is poured out. Together with a thick sediment they wanted to avoid first place

6 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 2

Stop spreading bullshit that’s not how silica works.

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

This was a train wreck. Chill the bottle. Dip cotton string in acetone, wrap it around at desired cut, light it. Easypeazylemonsqueezy

6 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Think he used that cock ring again after!? Lol

6 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 1

And I thought my dick was skinny

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Classic Kiwis

6 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

sup bro

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

If you need what appears to be surgical equipment to consume your alcohol, it is not worth it

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specially because if you drink that shit you will eat glass and need a surgeon

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

In some cases it might be totally worth it and even better.

6 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 3

You've obviously never tried 75 year old port. :)

6 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 4

Sounds nasty

6 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 5

If "alcohol" is all you think of when you see a almost 75yo bottle of Port, you might not be worth it.

6 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 6

Fancy alcohol is still alcohol.

6 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

that seems overly complicated and a good way to swallow a chunk of glass!

6 years ago | Likes 408 Dislikes 8

Normally it'll be a clean break, so it shouldn't be an issue at all.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Filtering port through a coffee paper is perfectly reasonable. And swallowing a bit of glass isn't exactly a disaster.

6 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 19

Glass doesn’t filter through your body it stays in there. Their is 0 reason to ever do this and drink the wine.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 2

Well that is clearly nonsense

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

I know that’s why it has 19 downvotes. They see how dumb you sound.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

You have to strain port of that age through cheese cloth... it will get all the glass.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

he did a terrible job of it, thermal shock should cut glass clean at ring, this was done badly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcqVwMvGQtU

6 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 2

I don't think that was thermal shock. He heated the ring to expand it then cooled it on the bottle. The ring shrunk and crushed the bottle.

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

the claim has a fucking source attached but ok

6 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Which shows a different fucking way of doing it. You seem to be one of those morons who think near enough is good enough.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

good think humanity invented sieves

6 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 1

Hence the decanter to make sure there's no glass in your glass.

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Decanting it doesn't inandof itself keep sediment (or glass) with correct pouring. Best to use cheesecloth too if you're worried about glass

6 years ago | Likes 23 Dislikes 0

Yeah look up silica that’s not how any of this works.

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

The lightest glass is still more than twice as dense as wine. Therefore, glass settles to the bottom. Just don't pour out the glass.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

because glass always breaks into large enough chunks to sink to the bottom of the bottle....

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

That's how density works. Unless it's nanoscopic, air-filled, or no one disturbs the surface tension and it's tiny.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Time to Google 'Port Tongs'!

6 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

Looked like like like pliers to me.

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Pike*

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Yea there are alot better ways of opening port of that vintage or older. That's just dumb.

6 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 4

Can you please enlighten us?

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Like how? Enlighten us.

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Port tongs were made for this purpose?

6 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

They were but no one really uses them these days

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

That looks like a really dumb way to open any bottle. Hope you like glass in your port.

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Time to Google 'Port Tongs'!

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Thats literally the textbook method of opening old port. Execution was a tad bit poor.

6 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

It's like people on Imgur have never heard of decanters. SMH

6 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I don't care how good your decanter is, I'd rather not have any particles or slivers of glass that can squeeze through that screen.

6 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

'Port Tong' is an actual item, apparently there has been a need for those back in the day http://www.wine-tastings-guide.com/port-tongs.html

6 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Sure back in the day, but there are much better merhods today.

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

That was a good read. Thank you.

6 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

De nada. I seriously considered buying those for my port-loving brother's big birthday present. But usually a corkscrew is just fine.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Well, that's a method used for ages by people who know much more of port than 99% of imgurians. I suspect they know better than you do too.

6 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 2

It may have been the best way to do it a long time ago but today its pretty shit.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

And what exactly would you suggest and how it is better?

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

My friend is an idiot and doesn't understand why you wouldn't isn't just pull the bottle like any other bottle of wine. Tell him why!

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Your friend isn't an idiot, just didn't know. Learning is knowledge, and you're a bad friend.

6 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

My friend would also like to hear the answer to this.

6 years ago | Likes 52 Dislikes 0

I replied to the other comment with a three comment explanation.

6 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 1

You can get openers that grip the old cork, but they are very expensive, these are much cheaper and a bit more flashy, source: waiter

6 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

Time to Google 'Port Tongs'!

6 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 1

This works, but it isn’t smarter or better. It looks like a drastic solution to an improperly stored bottle.

6 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

The cork was too big to come out. It porous, so it absorbed some wine and expanded too much. Looks like it was farther down than it should1/

6 years ago | Likes 244 Dislikes 1

Have been too. Anyway, they were heating the glass, and trying to quick cool it to shock it into breaking. The normal method leaves a clean2

6 years ago | Likes 65 Dislikes 1

Break in the glass, but since they used a metal ring and got it stuck it wasn't as nice of a break. 3/3

6 years ago | Likes 60 Dislikes 1

Thank you!

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Sorry, looked back at the video. The bottle neck was stupid, not the cork being too far in.

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They are idiots. If they were worried about the cork falling apart, they should have pushed it in, then poured it into a decanter. [1]

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When pouring, the cork floats allowing the port to flow out. Glass shards require filtration, which can involve excessive air exposure. [2]

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No filtration will get rid of the thousands of silica particles.

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There is a thick deposit on a bottom they don't want to disturb. And given how old that old cork is, it most probably would get disturbed.

6 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 2

Disturbing the deposit is bad? Does one want to avoid drinking the deposit? Can it be filtered out?

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It is bad, you don't want to drink it, if you an avoid filtering, avoid it.

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Is it bad for health reasons or does it taste bad?

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It's all about taste. Thou I don't think that settle is very good for health either.

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Normally you would fleet a high end vintage port through a muslin cloth into a decanter so it would capture any deposit or bits of cork

6 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Or if you’re at home, a coffee filter will do if you don’t have random bits of muslin hanging about

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Who doesn't have random bits of muslin?! Savages!

6 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Because glass shards are better than tiny pieces of cork obviously

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That's how the alcohol gets into your system quicker!

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Crafty Mexicans and their glass candy

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

I dont get it either

6 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 2

Cork makes the wine taste bad. Glass shards don't. As you will pour it into a decanter to check for debris, glass shards won't matter.

6 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 7

Nope. Properly stored the content would be in constant contact with the cork.

6 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

_if_ it was properly stored. Which it wasn't, obviously.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

You are extremely wrong. Their is thousands of silica particles in that bottle now. Source I work with glass daily.

6 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Well, usually the glass wouldn't break like this. As you work with glass, you might know, that it is a clean cut when done right.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 2

Yes and even a perfectly clean cut releases shit tons of particles. Ide never open my wine like this.

6 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Glass shards can be removed, corked wine is undrinkable

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“Corked” doesn’t mean tiny bits of cork floating in it. Corked means the wine was spoiled by bacteria. That’s why you’re given wine to 1/2

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6 years ago (deleted Mar 27, 2022 8:58 PM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

Taste at restaurants. It’s not “do you like this” it’s “is this corked or not?”. So you don’t drink half the bottle and then complain.

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I laugh at people saying cork spoils the taste. Wine is usually stored so that the wine touches the cork.

6 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 1

When sabering they tell you not to drink it if it breaks like that basically. Glass shards can get really tiny. Use a coffee filter maybe?

6 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

Would destroy the taste

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

that’s what i would do

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Thousands of glass silica particles can not be removed. Holy shit.

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

you mean wine glitter?

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Lol right. Love that people in the comments think you can filter that out. Thousands of silica particles floating around now.

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

You see that cork? It's so old and damaged, it would crumble and get all in the port.

6 years ago | Likes 42 Dislikes 2

the cork was swollen and the bottles neck an odd shape so it couldn't be pulled. Corrected method above, shit execution though.

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

As opposed to glass...

6 years ago | Likes 31 Dislikes 1

Glass sinks and is inert.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yeah, glass in your drink is no problem at all.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Clearly you missed the "sinks" bit. The glass falls to the bottom of the bottle, and you decant the port (#5) to remove glass and sediment.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Cork kind dries out and degrades over time so I'm assuming it was stored improperly and they worried a screw would make it crumble.

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I've had this happen. It sucked.

6 years ago | Likes 29 Dislikes 0

I always like to crumble after a good screw

6 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Not uncommon on decades old port wine, especially with he conical bottleneck. it's supposed to leave a clean break if done right, though.

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Couldn't one filter the wine through a coffee filter, or no?

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Could just smash the neck off with a hammer or some shit

6 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Lmao don’t want cork crumbles but let’s get some silica in our wine!

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

If the cork dries out, leave the bottle standing upside for a few hours to rehydrate it. Works for congac.

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Wouldn't that affect the taste of the wine though ?

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

No more than breaking the cork, and having to filter it out, which will airate excessively.

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DO NOT DO THIS WITH PORT - because vintage port throws a very sediment which will be mixed into the wine. The wine will be muddy and gritty.

6 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Use an upside down nail and push/gently hammer the cork in, the cork stays intact and will float as you then pour the port into a decanter.

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

You open it like any other bottle and you filter and decant it. What they are doing is stupid and risk to get shards of glass in the port.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

It’s easier to filter out shards of glass than cork dust.

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Coffee filters?. I am use to work with old cognac, wines, port. What they are doing is just plain stupid.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yeah, it's definitely better to have glass shards in your wine than cork debris.

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They're Ausies they would never know notice

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Cheese cloth

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I need to clean my glasses, because i read cock debris.

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

If done correctly this process can produce minimal shards and a shear line. also filters work better on glass than disolved cork.

6 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 2

The break in the video added thousands of tiny silica parties into that wine. No reason what’s so ever to ever do this and drink it.

6 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Unless the cork particles are more numerous/ dangerous and the wine is filterable with glass.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Glass shooting out of your urethra...

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Why would u say such cursed words

6 years ago | Likes 30 Dislikes 0

You... I don't like you.

6 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I mean I'm no weewee doctor but you'd probably shit it out rather than pee it just sayin

6 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

And grind up your stomach, intestines, rectum and anus in the process. Port good enough to die for

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Pew pew!

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Cork tastes. Glass does not.

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Blood definitely has a flavor.

6 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

coppery notes.

6 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Glass sinks, cork doesn't. Just don't pour the last bit for anybody, good to go!

6 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Well, the glass doesn't mess with taste, the cork does. So... better dead or in the hospital than tasting subpar Porto from 1945, I guess.

6 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

The glass wont shatter like you think, the heat causes it to be more ductile and rearrages it's molecules, the water cools it rapidly to[1]

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Induce a thermal shock via temperature gradient. The glass cleaves cleanly if hot enough, jagged if not, but if the heat is uniform it[2]

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I feel like a coffee filter could be used to catch the cork bits. That's much more readily available than a torch and metal ring

6 years ago | Likes 67 Dislikes 4

Not in Australia. Almost no-one here has drip coffee. It's espresso or instant. Plus you could also use the filter for the glass, which is..

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

..almost inert and won't soak up any of the booze!

6 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

bullshit. aeropress use paper filters and are very common. Paper filters readily available in Melb. I've got plenty I use for camping.

6 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Coffee filter would change the flavor a lot

6 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Split Cork, especially old cork makes wine taste bad. And if the ring was done properly there would be no glass

6 years ago | Likes 41 Dislikes 2

Not that quickly it doesn't. What you're talking about is cork taint. Completely different.

6 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 0

I work around glass. Every break no matter how clean releases thousands of silica particles. Horrible to breath or Ingest.

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