The craziest wine bottle opener we tested was the Cork Pops Legacy. The smallest tool of the bunch, it’s a plastic housing on top of a long needle, with a canister of compressed air. To open a bottle, you push the needle through the cork and then push down on the canister, which forces air into the bottle, the pressure of which helps to remove the cork. During the first attempt to use it, we were shocked by just how quickly the cork popped out and how much wine splattered on us and the inside of the tool. There wasn’t as much of a mess the next time, but the somewhat-explosive force made us concerned.
