OXO Steel Vertical Lever Corkscrew with Removable Foil Cutter

We've tried a variety of wine openers - manual and battery operated - and this unit from OXO is hands down our favorite. Learn how to operate it (which is easy) and it will never fail to remove the cork cleanly the first time and every time. I liked it so much I bought several as Christmas gifts for friends and family. Solidly built and includes an extra cork screw but I can't imagine needing that anytime soon. Love the way the foil cutter fits into the unit, works and looks great.

Easy to use, works well, and designed to last.

This is literally the coolest thing ever and has replaced my electronic one. So easy to use, so fast and so quiet! And it also has the blade to cut the foil too - which I didn't see for a couple of months. One of my fav recent purchases.

Works wonderfully! Easy Peasy 👍

I've had many different kinds of wine openers over the years.I won't use the kind which pry a cork out with either two long metal prongs on either side of the cork or with a metal leg that rests on the top rim of the bottle for leverage when prying--in both cases those kinds have chipped the glass bottle, leading me to dump the wine down the drain for fear of pieces of glass in the wine.I've had several of the two-arm type. They work fairly well but require a twisting motion which I find less and less comfortable the older I get. Some have eventually broken (usually the arm breaks) and all of them are a pain to get the cork off of.This opener is excellent. It requires little force to insert the corkscrew into the cork, extract the cork from the bottle and eject the cork from the opener when finished. In both cases, it involves a lever motion (either up or down), which is easier and less painful than a twisting motion.It's a nice feature that the foil cutter stores directly on the opener where it is easily removed and easily replaced. This is also the style of foil cutter I prefer by far (compared to, say, a dangerous, sharp knife edge which can easily slip off the bottle and add some additional red color to your wine). Unfortunately, this is the least effective cutter of this type I've ever used (even compared to dirt-cheap ones).Many times it simply dents the foil rather than cutting it. If I press *really* hard in just the right place, it shreds the foil into thin strips. I don't know whether the problem is the blade wheels aren't sharp enough, or whether the plastic body of the cutter which surrounds the blade wheels prevents them from cutting deep enough into the foil to cut through it. There are some bottles it works fine with and it seems to work with bottles which have a plastic wrap rather than a metal foil, but most of the time it is a time-consuming effort.I suppose I could just get another brand of foil cutter of that type, but I really like being able to store the cutter on the opener...

Works on corks that are hard to extract, great product, and does not require the cork twister..

This bottle opener works great! No more twisting a corkscrew to open wine bottles for me! It does take a little strength but it's a lot easier for someone who doesn't have a strong grip.

1/2019 -I have gone through at least a half dozen of the other lever pull openers. We open 1 or 2 bottles a night and if we have a party then perhaps a couple of dozen so we put moderate demands on our openers. The previous openers all have the same basic design, and they all have failed in the same way in less than a year. The guide pin starts binding and then the worm guide fails too. This opener, although similar has what I believe will be a significant enough difference to make this one last. Rather than a cog that transmits perpendicular forces against the guide pin, this one is set up as a fulcrum so the force is straight up and inline with the pin. The plastic body feels slightly clunky but it is obviously for cosmetic design and looks, so I guess I won't begrudge that. All in all I have very high hopes for this one! Of course the fact is it OXO brand with a lifetime warrantee doesn't hurt either! That was why I took the chance on this somewhat more expensive opener even though I could not really tell what the mechanism looked like from the product photos.8/2019 - Update. So far so good. still going strong with no sign of the binding or wear I had with the other style of opener. I don't think the screw worm goes quite as far into the cork with this one as the others. Not much of a difference and maybe only perception because the aforementioned bulky housing makes it hard to see. A couple of dry corks have come out torn in half, but I think that would have occurred with any opener as they were definitely on the crumbly side. I do get why some complain about the foil cutter. The cutting wheels are really small. If you have ever seen a glass cutter, they look like those. It can be difficult to cut a thick foil, but on the plus side it is holding up WAY better than any other cutter. Those are usually the first thing to die but this one is still going strong. Living up to expectations!3/2021 - Update. I have now had MANY bottles run though this opener and it is still working. The foil cutter is getting harder to use, especially on higher quality wines that have the thicker lead seal. I took it apart to see what was going on and it is just wear on plastic components that is allowing the cutting wheels to slowly recede back into the housing. They were a bit undersized to begin with so really not working that well now. A minor redesign here would make a BIG difference and big improvement. Hopefully they will do that at some point. As for the opener itself, the very dense composite corks are getting harder to open. The worm guide is showing considerable wear and that seems to be the culprit for that issue. For a regular cork the opener is still going strong and working well. SO much better than everything else I have tried.11/2022 - Ok. It finally died. 2 years, 10 months so nearly 3 x as long as all the previous lever pull style openers. As expected, it was the worm guide that wore out and broke. It is high density plastic and I could tell that was going to be failure point a while ago. This is still head and hands better than anything else I have tried given the comparatively heavy demands we put on our openers.1/26/24 - Second one died. I am still convinced this is the best one currently out there. I tried another that looked good and had a similar, inline mechanism, but it was very cheaply made and required a lot of force to pull synthetic corks.3/13/2025 - Something has changed, likely the quality of metal in a particular part. I got a 3rd opener after the 2nd one died but it also died very quickly. I thought perhaps it was a fluke. I contacted OXO and they sent me a warranty replacement so I can't say anything bad about the company. Stellar in standing behind their products! Unfortunately, the 4th opener died within months with the same failure as the previous one. The metal pin that holds it together broke in the same place. I HOPE they find out what was changed and revert to what they were doing before because this WAS a GREAT opener.