True Fabrications Rocket Air Pump Wine Opener

by True Fabrications

Product Features

• Easy and simple to open any bottle of wine with just a pump of the handle
• Stainless steel with rubberized handle for easy grip
• Teflon needle for firm and steady insertion into any cork

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 5 x 4 x 4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0027HPQ8U
• Item model number: 437
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #87,696 in Kitchen & Dining (See Top 100 in Kitchen & Dining)

Product Description

The new Rocket Air Pump Wine Opener is a simple, easy and fast way to open up a bottle of wine with the hassle of pulling and twisting. Simply slide the needed in, pump a few times and the cork is out and the wine ready to drink

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars needle-pump cork puller, January 30, 2010

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R. V. Russo (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: True Fabrications Rocket Air Pump Wine Opener (Kitchen)

I was carefull not to call this Rocket Air Pump wine opener a "corkscrew," since it uses a needle to penetrate the cork and not a spiral screw.

This type of device has been around for many years, and I have used similar products before. The previous other brands of similar needle design all broke fairly quickly. As I have only used this Rocket model a few months, I cannot yet comment as to durability.

The product liability lawyers have "improved" the design as now the sharp needle is encased in a retractible hard plastic sleeve which protects the user from injury. The sleeve slides up around the pump handle as the needle penetrates the cork.

The needle penetrates corks fairly easily and just a few pumps up and down with the handle slowly eases the cork out of the bottle. For older wines with more fragile corks it does a much better job of removing the cork without either breaking it leaving pieces in the bottle than a conventional corkscrew.

There is a significant buildup of pressure in using the pump and one must be careful not to have the cork "pop" to vigorously.

The Rocket needle pump is definitely easier and more fun to use than a corkscrew. I would be careful keeping it away from children. The safety shield is probably a good thing, but children are very clever when it comes to possible misuse of sharp objects.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars works, but not great. Useful for older bottles, April 18, 2010

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Adamg "adamg" (chicago) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: True Fabrications Rocket Air Pump Wine Opener (Kitchen)

Firstly I would never buy this product for opening younger bottles of wine. Many other openers are better and the air pump will spill wine if you pump in too much air, which is easy to do. If you think it is cool or you don't mind being very delicate with adding just the right amount of air, it will open younger bottles. For me it was not as easy as a screw pull. Having said that, I bought it because I was looking for something to help with older corks that could have issues related to either being deteriorated or 'stuck' in the bottle due to dryness. This product is a qualified success in those cases. What I find is that usually it will loosen an old cork making it much easier to remove the cork with a regular wine opening device like a decent cork screw. So buy it for help in opening older bottles with tough corks. For this situation it works better than any other product I have tried. Don't buy it to open the under 10 year old bottle.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars PRODUCT WARNING - reports of bottles shattering, January 1, 2011

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A. Cohn (Bay Area, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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on 12/30/10, another retailer, QVC, contacted everyone who bought this device (under the Skybar label) to tell them to stop using it. There have been reports of bottles shattering under the pressure used to expel the corks.