Rabbit Wine Opener

What is a Rabbit Wine Opener?

If you're looking for an easy way to open a bottle of wine, there's a new type of wine opener that showed up a few years back called the 'rabbit'. It gets its name because when viewed from the site, it looks like the profile of a rabbit with its ears back.
A rabbit opener has two handles that clamp around the top of the bottle. A simple lever easy pushed the corkscrew into the cork and then just as easily pulls it out.

My father-in-law bought me a rabbit opener as a gift and I was surprised at how easy it is to use. My rabbit opener came with a foil cutter. The foil cutter is shaped like an oversized bottle cap. You put it over the top of the bottle, squeeze, and then turn the bottle. It cuts right through the foil and the top just pops right off. It's a lot easier to use than the blade on a blade on a standard corkscrew opener. 

The whole rabbit device might seem a bit like overkill, as it's pretty large and seemingly complicated, but it's a snap to use. Clamp it over the top of a bottle, pull the lever down, push it back up and presto - the cork is out. Work the lever one more time and it pulls the worm gear right out of the cork.

I'm a member of the 4 Seasons Wine Club, some I get regular shipment of wine. I have to say I look forward to opening the box just so I can use my rabbit opener on them!

So if you're not a power lifter who enjoys struggling to pull a cork from a bottle of wine. You ought to check out a rabbit opener.