Italian Floor Corker
Cork 30 bottles in 20 minutes without wrecking your wrists.
Russ-approvedBest for big batchesBuy onceEditor's choice
≈ $75–$89price range
The hand-held double-lever corkers work. They also hurt. By bottle 15 you'll wonder if you've made a mistake. By bottle 30 you'll know.
A floor corker compresses the cork from four sides at once with a single lever pull. It costs more, but it's the difference between bottling day being a chore and bottling day being fun. Russ recommends splitting one with a friend if it stretches the budget.
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Russ would happily talk about this for an hour. Buy one or rent one. Don't suffer.
Anyone bottling more than one batch a year.
- Cast iron / steel construction
- Single-lever operation
- Iris jaws compress cork from 4 sides
- Works with all #8/#9 corks
