Elite Picnic Backpacks

I went out to dinner the other night and saw a couple coming into the dining area carring a brown bag.  I knew right away what they were carring.  Yes, you guessed it.  It was a bottle of wine.  All is well and good but, I think that if you are going to bring your own bottle of wine you should carry into the dining area in something more modern.

There are many different types of Wine Carriers today.  They even come equipped with the corkscrew and the glasses.  They come in many different sizes also, they hold from one bottle of wine to about 4 bottles of wine.

So, the next time you may opt to bring your own bottle of wine into the dining area of a resturant in a brown bag,  you may want to see what a modern day wine carrier looks like.

I found this article on Wikipedia on the history of Corkscrews.

Its design may have derived from the gun worm which was a device used by musketmen to remove unspent charges from a musket’s barrel in a similar fashion, from at least the early 1630s.

The corkscrew is possibly an English invention, due to the tradition of beer and cider, and Treatise on Cider by J. Worlidge in 1676 describes “binning of tightly corked cider bottles on their sides”, although the earliest reference to a corkscrew is, “steel worm used for the drawing of Corks out of Bottles” from 1681.

In 1795, the first corkscrew patent was granted to the Reverend Samuell Henshall, in England. The clergyman affixed a simple disk, now known as the Henshall Button, between the worm and the shank. The disk prevents the worm from going too deep into the cork, forces the cork to turn with the turning of the crosspiece, and thus breaks the adhesion between the cork and the neck of the bottle. The disk is designed and manufactured slightly concave on the underside, which compresses the top of the cork and helps keep it from breaking apart.

Article about corkscrews from Wikipedia the online encyclopedia.