BarCraft Connoisseur kurkentrekkerset met hendel

Werkte de eerste maanden perfekt maar nu duwt hij de kurk naar beneden.

Brilliant

Un vrai bonheur. Livré dans un beau coffret. Qualité et esthétique remarquable. Et surtout, vraiment facilitateur pour ouvrir les bouteilles, plus besoin de batailler. J'ai choisi ce produit suite aux commentaires précédents, mais aussi parce que manifestement les tire bouchons électriques avec batterie ne tiennent pas la route longtemps (pb de batterie qui lâche).Eu égard à ses dimensions, ne comptez pas le mettre dans un tiroir. De toutes façons, je le trouve si esthétique que je le laisse trôner sur le buffet de ma cuisine. Le bouchon livré avec est un vrai plus, il est très beau et efficace.Enfin, le support est très bien pensé, il est prévu pour que l'on puisse y loger le coupe capsules associé.je joins quelques photos

Bought this in December 2011 so it's been on trial for 3 and a half years. Bought it as I saw it being used in a Spanish restaurant by the waitress at the bar and thought 'wow' that looks simple enough for my wife to use, so quick and easy. Until it started playing up about a month or two ago I would have given it 5 stars. However....The weak part, in our openers case, is where the two gears teeth meet. As you pull the arm down and the screw enters the cork and starts to travel down into the cork you have to exert quite a downward force on the handle. Some of the corks must be tough or dry though because the pressure needed to push the spiral screw down into the cork has caused the gear teeth to slip/jump a notch so the spiral screw does not travel as far down into the cork as it should and it is then impossible to pull the cork out (effectively the whole corkscrew is then knackered as it has jumped a gear). So you then have to unwind the whole corkscrew from the cork leaving a quarter pulled cork sticking out from the bottle and remove the cork using something else, if you don't want to go thirsty. Remedy. At first I used brute force and a screwdriver to ease the teeth apart and set the handle back to normal. This was very difficult but I could see no other way to re-set the tool. But the problem persisted and the gears failed again after a few more bottles and so the writing was on the wall...this opener had had it. I was very disappointed, it was expensive but nice, heavy, beautifully made, lovely finish but a chain is only as strong as it's weakest link. I had expected this to last for many years, after all metal vs. cork ? its should have been no contest. But the interlinking of the gear-teeth have been this ones downfall. I wrote to the company via their on site 'contact us' link but so far have not had a reply. Don't expect one either. So it's back to the old bottle opener for now.(but........ see below)UPDATE. Since this review I have purchased Two new Brabantia corkscrews, one Classic and one Napoleon. They take up nowhere near the space of the Connoisseur which was big and bulky. My wife finds them much easier to use and like other reviewers I give them 5 stars.UPDATE on my UPDATE. Its now October 2014. 6 weeks ago I wrote to Kitchen Craft to inform them of my faulty opener, not expecting a reply. However, soon afterwards I received a freepost lable and a request to return it to them for examination in Ireland. Today 4th Oct, I received a parcel, here in Spain, and inside was a replacement opener. Also a very nice letter from Zoe Perry, Product Quality Department. I was most impressed as I had thought that this sort of service was going out of fashion, but this proves otherwise. Obviously I was extremely pleased to receive the replacement and letter which has prompted me to update my star rating of the opener. Perhaps my origional opener was a Monday morning or Friday afternoon one but I cannot fault the company's attention towards it's customers. I am therefore re-reviewing my origional 1 star and giving it 5 star based on customer satisfaction and care. The trouble now is which of my three openers do I use!

Me gusta este producto pues cumple su función a un buen precio ( en torno a los 22 euros).Hace varios años que lo compré para mi casa y me ha dado tan buen resultado que he comprado dos más para regalar. Viene en un estuche de cartón duro e incluye repuesto de la espiral.

Bought it in April 2022 and it recently stopped functioning as it should, no return of the cork anymore. Too much plastic in the design, which gets worn out, and it wasn’t exactly cheap. Disappointing.