There you go again… for the last time, just because it’s a corkscrew doesn’t mean you’re supposed to screw it up! So you’ve got cork pieces floating in your bottle of wine and you want to get them out. No problem.

Remember when you were a kid and you would suck up a drink with a straw, put your finger over the top and you’d have a straw full of liquid to do something goofy with? Same concept. Put the straw into the wine bottle and cover the floating cork pieces with the end of the straw. Put your finger on the top of the straw. This creates a vacuum and the cork will stay inside the straw while you lift it safely up and out of the bottle.

You might look like a little kid getting it out but hey… you’re the one who got us into this dilemma to begin with!