Rabbit W6004N Original Lever Corkscrew Wine Opener with Foil Cutter and Extra Spiral, Black Finish, Smooth Lever Action for Effortless Cork Removal

This makes opening wine bottles easy, and fast. The price was reasonable, and I’ve been really happy with purchase.

We purchased one about two years ago and at first it worked great, for about two months. Then it simply stopped lifting the cork. It would screw into the cork, then, when it was supposed to lift the cork, it would instead back out. I called the company and they said I was not using it correctly. Really? I took some time to examine the mechanism. It is actually a two step process, There are to parts that move: the screw, which is directly connected to the handle via the gear mechanism and then the floating arm that allows the cork to lift or extract the cork from the screw. Seems when you make the first lift the handle, once it extends fully, the arm is supposed to seat against the cork. Mine would not complete the seat process. So I fooled with it using really loose corks, etc., and finally got to function correctly. It then worked as advertised for about three more months. Then pieces began falling off. There are these little football shaped oval inserts on either side of the floating arm, they began to come out of either side on a regular basis and the pin can work out. Not good. The the main gear pin fell out. WTF? There is some sort of cap that is pushed in one side to hold it. Honestly, not a screw or anything like that, but just a fitting. Try putting that back together correctly after you've had a couple glass of wine that you struggled to open. Exasperating. Finally, one of the arms simply broke off while trying to extract a synthetic cork. I've gone back to a good old trusty manual lever opener that served me well through two years of bar tending in college. When the Metrokane works, it worked great. But I mostly found this a great mechanical design assembled with inferior parts and equally poor securing of said pats. These guys need to look at how a Harley is build.

I have worn two of these out, and each have lasted 10-15 years. I love these. Easy to use, get the cork out of the bottle, and get the cork off of the device. After trying multiple different kinds, this is the one for me!

I bought this corkscrew about two months ago after a similar one fron Sharper Image broke. The Rabbit corkscrew works very well; better than the previous Sharper Image version. My big complaint is the stand/base for the unit. First you must remove the corkscrew from the stand and set it down in order to get to the foil cutter which is located under the corkscrew in the stand. My other complaint is the unattractiveness of it(the stand). It is black plastic with large white lettering proclaiming it as the "Original Rabitt" and other propaganda. I do not appreciate having this sitting on my bar. UPDATE..This corkscrew didn't last a year. It has become very hard to push the screw into the cork and even harder to eject the cork from the screw. I replaced the screw but that did not help. UPDATE...After setting it aside for a few months I tried it out again and it seemed to be working ok on most corks until yesterday when it just fell apart into many pieces. It worked all right in removing the cork from the bottle, but when I tried to remove the cork from the screw something snapped and it all came apart. I am going to tell the same to Metrokane and see what they say..

I love drinking wine, however, I save my money for wine and will use regular house-hold cork screws to open the bottles. As long as the cork doesn't break, I was happy with the cheap cork screws. My friend kept talking about the Rabbit, and she too had the same mentality as I did. So when it came to buying her a birthday present, I thought that this gift would suit her great, because I knew she would not but one herself. She was super happy when she opened her present and tried it out straight away. When it came time to open the second bottle, I tired out her gift and well, that was the end of getting by using cheap cork screw openers for me! The ease of opening a bottle of wine was shocking! No more holding the bottle between your knees or struggling to get the cork out with breaking it. It is worth using the foil cutter which is shaped like an oversized bottle cap because it will make your Rabbit last longer. Just fit it over the top of the bottle, squeeze, and turn to cut the foil off the bottle. Then it's Rabbit time! Position the corkscrew opener on top of the bottle of wine, pull the lever back, then push it forward so that the screw goes into the cork (whether it is a true cork or plastic), and then pull back the lever to pull up the cork. To get the cork out of the cork screw, hold the two Rabbit handles together, pull back the lever and push it forward. Very easy, great if you do not have a lot of strength, and it makes a lovely noise, just like the noise the bartenders make when opening a bottle of wine at your favorite wine bar! I have bought the Rabbit Original Lever Corkscrew set for myself, and many people as present. I hope that you have found my opinion to be helpful with your decision process to purchase this item. If this is the case, and where Amazon asks if this review helpful, please click "yes". Thank you!

Even I can open a bottle now! Electric ones are now trashed.

Not well made Broke by 6 mos Hardly used

Update 7/4/2024: This Rabbit Corkscrew has one job to do: remove corks from wine bottles. It fails to do this job. If you buy this thinking it will remove wine corks from bottles, you will be sorely disappointed. The second Rabbit I received had the same issues as the first. I had hoped the first Rabbit was somehow a defective device and got a replacement, but now 2 different units failed in the same way. In short, it does not consistently work. See the attached photos to see the results. It failed to remove the cork 3 times on one bottle type, succeeded 2 times on another bottle type, and failed on a third bottle type. Of 3 different styles of wine bottles tested, it failed to remove the cork on 2 of them. In my opinion, it is a mistake to purchase this product if you expect it to operate like the older style Rabbit, or Rabbit-type corkscrews. Original review follows: Like other 1 star reviewers, my (first) Rabbit corkscrew did not work correctly. I had previously owned a rabbit style opener with essentially the same design and operation, so I know how they are supposed to work (the previous opener broke after several years use). The way it should work is you place the opener on the bottle, and apply a reasonable amount of pressure to squeeze the handles together. The pressure on the handles around the neck of the bottle causes two “cogs” to pull into the device. You can see the cog pins stick out from the side as you press the handles together, and if you look closely you can see the cogs move into the housing. This is easiest to see before you engage the corkscrew into the cork. With my previous corkscrew, the handles were about 1-1/2” apart in order to pull these cogs into the housing, the pressure like a firm handshake. Activate the lever and run the corkscrew down into the cork. Maintaining the pressure on the handles, lift the lever to pull the cork out of the bottle, With the cogs pulled into the housing, it allows the sliding piece to move up the guide shaft with the cork, retaining the cork on the screw. When you remove the Rabbit from the bottle, the cogs spring back out. This retains the sliding piece when you run the lever back down. When the lever is pulled back up the piece is held in place by the cogs, ejecting the cork. That’s how it should work. On my new Rabbit, the cogs did not pull into the housing until the two handles were essentially touching. The amount of force required to get to this position was excessive, and very difficult to maintain. If you did a handshake with this amount of force, the recipient would complain. Thinking I just needed to squeeze the handles as hard as possible to make it work, I tried pulling the cork out using this excessive handle pressure (I did this several times by putting a cork back into the bottle). Infrequently it would work, and the cork would come out. Often the sliding piece would get part way up the guide before stopping, so the cork was not fully removed from the bottle (one of the video reviews above shows this happening). Most of the time, the sliding piece would just remain down on the bottle (held by the cogs), so the corkscrew would go into the cork, then just pull back out again when the lever was lifted. I am hoping this was some sort of manufacturing defect, so I have returned the first Rabbit (thanks Amazon for such a painless return process!), and as of July 1, 2024, Amazon is sending a replacement. I will update this review once I test the replacement Rabbit corkscrew. For now, a 1 star rating is accurate.