Metrokane Houdini 6-Piece Wine Tool Kit, Black
 

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Metrokane Houdini 6-Piece Wine Tool Kit, Black

by Metrokane

$69.99
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Label:Metrokane
UPC:022578029108
Binding:Kitchen
Published By:Metrokane
ASIN:B000090W8Z
Category:Kitchen

Metrokane Houdini 6-Piece Wine Tool Kit, Black Features

  • Includes Houdini lever-style corkscrew for pulling corks in 3 seconds
  • Also includes foil cutter, drip-stop ring, wine sealer, wax whacker, spare corkscrew
  • All-metal gears and comfortable grip on corkscrew
  • Packaged in attractive gift box
  • 5 Year Warranty on the Houdini

Editorial Reviews and Product Descriptions

Amazon.com Review

This wine tool kit is one of the most thoughtful gifts you could bestow on a friend with a passion for wine. First and foremost, the kit packs a Houdini corkscrew, a lever-style tool that removes a cork in 3 seconds with a push and a pull on its comfortable curved handle. Another rapid push and pull on the handle ejects the cork from the corkscrew. This high-quality cork-pulling device has durable, all-metal gears that have held up to 20,000 cork pulls in tests by an independent laboratory. The Houdini also works on any size wine bottle so need be the only opener in your drawer.

The kit also includes a foil cutter in a patented "bottle-cap" design, which removes the foil cap from your bottle with a simple squeeze and twist; a drip-stop ring, which prevents drips from running down the bottle and staining your tablecloth or clothing; and a wine/champagne sealer, which provides an airtight cap on unfinished bottles to preserve them for a later date. These three tools are all easy to grip and fit wine bottles of all sizes. The kit’s final components include a wax whacker for removing wax seals from wine bottles and a spare corkscrew for emergencies. Metrokane packages the entire set in an attractive gift box and covers the Houdini corkscrew under a five-year warranty. --Cristina Vaamonde

Customer Reviews

Like it - Reviewed on 2005-08-13
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1 customer found this review not to be helpful.
It will be nice to have as an addition to my kitchen and seems to work well
Good Looks, Great Function. - Reviewed on 2005-02-19
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After reading some of the other comments about the Houdini kit I must have received the best of the best because I have opened at least 50 bottles of wine with mine and it still works like the day it arrived. I am still on the first cork screw (they are replaceable) and it works like a champ.

Some of the other items that accompany the corkscrew are less than ideal but for function, this is the way to go & at a very decent price on the Friday Sales.
Spend the extra $10 and get the Rabbit - Reviewed on 2004-11-29
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4 customers found this review helpful.

We use our Houdini, and thought it was pretty swell, until we visited a friend who owned the Metrokane Rabbit corkscrew.
The Houdini works well for us, but the handles are a bit jiggly, and after a year of use, feels like each bottle may be the last one the Houdini opens before it breaks. The Rabbit seems much sturdier. If the Houdini is the Cadillac of corkscrews, then the Rabbit is the Hummer.
Great item - Reviewed on 2004-09-13
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2 customers found this review helpful.

Once you get the hang of this, it works great. Love it.
Didn't Hold Up - Reviewed on 2004-04-11
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13 customers found this review helpful.

I knew this was a cheaper version of 'The Rabbit', but I still expected it to last a bit longer than it did. After about 25 uses, the corkscrew no longer works, although I sitll have a fantastic bottle stopper and drip ring. This product is not recommended.
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