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Wine bottle openers are required to open wine bottles that are stoppered with a
cork. They are slowly being supplanted by the screwcap closure. There are many
different inceptions of the wine bottle opener ranging from the simple corkscrew,
the screw pull lever, to complicated carbon dioxide driven openers. The most
popular is the wine key, sommelier knife or "waiter's friend" which resembles a
pocket knife and has a small blade for cutting foil and a screw with a bottle brace.