Wine tasting parties are becoming popular these days. In fact, after seeing a boom in coffee shops and tea parlors, the next scene will probably wine bars. Wine is a sophisticated drink that you can enjoy even in the comforts of your own home.
You and your friends can start your own wine-tasting club or hold wine-tasting parties. There is a lot of information available to learn more about the different wine flavors, and how to appreciate each of them. Having a number of wine decanters is a must in order to bring out the best flavors of each wine, and appreciate the taste to its fullest.
My daughter and I sat on a park bench on a perfect summer day, watching freight ships and sailboats cut through the sparkling waters of Lake Superior. I don’t know why but our conversation switched to discussing how the corkscrew came about. She calmly looked over at me and said,” You know the history behind the cork screw don’t you?” I looked at her sure that I did, but looking at her, I was not sure anymore… When your children become a certain age, they actually are sometimes smarter than you.(smarter not wiser), She told me that people use to take little piglets and plunk them on top of a bottle turn them around and around and around, until the little pigs tail would screw into the cork. When the pig escaped, it would take the cork out with it. I looked at her, She started laughing and told me she was just kidding, she made that up. I started to laugh Okay, maybe I blieved her but it was only for a second.No one is sure when exactly corkscrews came about. They do know that a tool for cleaning musket barrels, “a gun worm,” opened what was corked such as the medication bottles, makeup bottles, and beer, to name a few.The English were the ancestors of sealing wine bottles with cork, with Spain or Portugal as the suppliers of the cork. The cork trees were native to Spain. Did you know the cork tree is specie of the Oak tree? It was not until the very late 17th to the 18th century after inspired by the stylish gun worm did someone finally design the first corkscrew for the wine bottle.
The designing became a popular challenge across the globe. Germany, England, France, and the U.S. took a good try to design a very functional corkscrew. Starting with H.S. Healy‘s version of the Double Winged Corkscrew. In 1888. Carl Wienke of Germany developed the Butlers Friends patenting in Britain, the next year in France and America.
Dominick Rosati developed the Double Winged corkscrew for the U.S. in 1930.I personally own a Walker Bell want to be corkscrew design. The Walker Bell corkscrew was designed in 1893.
The pig and the cork did make a nice story and seeing some of the things in today’s world that people do…it is not that far fetched.
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