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How To Use Hot Tongs To Crack Open A Wine Bottle

Alana KakoyiannisDec 22, 2013, 21:30 IST

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Jonathan Ross, a sommelier at Eleven Madison Park, is responsible for resurrecting the Old World tradition of using heated tongs to open wine.

By placing the red-hot metal around the bottle neck, it makes a clean break and leaves the cork intact. The method originated in Portugal as an alternative to opening very old bottles of wine with corks that tended to crumble from age.