Well, by now I've decided that if I've got more money I want to spend, it's for wine not for a different corkscrew since this one has opened many bottles with zero failures.

You line up the opener, turn the screw, watch the wings unfold, turn down the wings and the cork comes out with no problems. It has not yet failed to remove all of the cork, whole, with no fragments. It's fast, clean, relatively effortless, and cheap.

I'm an obvious "newbie" to wine, but seriously - this thing is really underpriced. I'm ordering another for a backup.

And even though you can open a bottle quicker and more stylishly with a traditional corkscrew, it takes time to learn how. By contrast, this winged baby can be used successfully right out of the box. The mechanism on this model is particularly smooth, especially given the price.

This product is thus recommendable for casual, low-volume wine drinkers. If you're going to be opening bottles with any frequency in front of guests, I would tend to suggest you learn how to use a more traditional, single-lever model.