Thursday, March 31, 2016

The first self-opening wine bottle

The 'punt' of a bottle is the indentation at the base of the bottle.

Avrilpuleg 1.4 is a revolutionary wine bottle closure that is self-opening. No corkscrew or other gadget is required since, as soon as a wine glass is waved in front of it – as if it were a magic wand – the wine bottle opens itself without the need to even touch it. Unveiling the wine to much excitement at a press conference, the company's CEO, Hugo Ebrill, showed the first case of wine bottles sealed with the new stopper. He said the new closure is "powered by an imploding mechanism hidden in the bottle's punt or base" – think opposite of explosion. "It proposes a ground-breaking trigger... This article is part of our premium content. Full story is available on Times of Malta Premium.

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