Rabbit W6004N Original Lever Corkscrew Wine Opener with Foil Cutter and Extra Spiral, Black Finish, Smooth Lever Action for Effortless Cork Removal

Has an original Rabbit and it broke after 20+ years. Given as a replacment gift - works better than all of th rest weved tried.

Update 7/4/2024: This Rabbit Corkscrew has one job to do: remove corks from wine bottles. It fails to do this job. If you buy this thinking it will remove wine corks from bottles, you will be sorely disappointed.The second Rabbit I received had the same issues as the first. I had hoped the first Rabbit was somehow a defective device and got a replacement, but now 2 different units failed in the same way. In short, it does not consistently work. See the attached photos to see the results. It failed to remove the cork 3 times on one bottle type, succeeded 2 times on another bottle type, and failed on a third bottle type. Of 3 different styles of wine bottles tested, it failed to remove the cork on 2 of them.In my opinion, it is a mistake to purchase this product if you expect it to operate like the older style Rabbit, or Rabbit-type corkscrews.Original review follows:Like other 1 star reviewers, my (first) Rabbit corkscrew did not work correctly. I had previously owned a rabbit style opener with essentially the same design and operation, so I know how they are supposed to work (the previous opener broke after several years use).The way it should work is you place the opener on the bottle, and apply a reasonable amount of pressure to squeeze the handles together. The pressure on the handles around the neck of the bottle causes two “cogs” to pull into the device. You can see the cog pins stick out from the side as you press the handles together, and if you look closely you can see the cogs move into the housing. This is easiest to see before you engage the corkscrew into the cork. With my previous corkscrew, the handles were about 1-1/2” apart in order to pull these cogs into the housing, the pressure like a firm handshake.Activate the lever and run the corkscrew down into the cork. Maintaining the pressure on the handles, lift the lever to pull the cork out of the bottle,With the cogs pulled into the housing, it allows the sliding piece to move up the guide shaft with the cork, retaining the cork on the screw. When you remove the Rabbit from the bottle, the cogs spring back out. This retains the sliding piece when you run the lever back down. When the lever is pulled back up the piece is held in place by the cogs, ejecting the cork.That’s how it should work.On my new Rabbit, the cogs did not pull into the housing until the two handles were essentially touching. The amount of force required to get to this position was excessive, and very difficult to maintain. If you did a handshake with this amount of force, the recipient would complain. Thinking I just needed to squeeze the handles as hard as possible to make it work, I tried pulling the cork out using this excessive handle pressure (I did this several times by putting a cork back into the bottle). Infrequently it would work, and the cork would come out. Often the sliding piece would get part way up the guide before stopping, so the cork was not fully removed from the bottle (one of the video reviews above shows this happening). Most of the time, the sliding piece would just remain down on the bottle (held by the cogs), so the corkscrew would go into the cork, then just pull back out again when the lever was lifted.I am hoping this was some sort of manufacturing defect, so I have returned the first Rabbit (thanks Amazon for such a painless return process!), and as of July 1, 2024, Amazon is sending a replacement. I will update this review once I test the replacement Rabbit corkscrew. For now, a 1 star rating is accurate.

So easy to use once you get the hang of it. Love that the wine foil cutter is attached to the opener.

Works great, this is my second one. It’s ONLY challenge is the cork removal off the screw once it’s out, that can take some muscle and/or careful work. But otherwise this is one of my favorite cork puller designs!

Thank heavens I now have a corkscrew I can use.

The REAL Rabbit is the only one to buy! Don’t fall for the cheap imitations! I had a my original Rabbit for almost 20 years until I worked it to death. I got this one and love it. It’s not as heavy as the original. Super simple to use.

The media could not be loaded. We have friends who have one that works well, and it is MARVELOUS. We loved it. So easy! So I ordered one for my wife for Christmas 2023. It was terrible... nearly impossible to use. I found it in a drawer today, 6 months later, and decided to see if I could figure out why it was so very hard to use.And I did. Having read reviews here and on the Rabbit Wine website, I believe the problem is one of quality control. The gears on ours do not mesh well, making it very difficult to open, let alone open a bottle of wine.Watch the video for more. The device has a 10-year warranty, so I'm sending it back. When they work, people love them and they're worth it. If we get another bad one, we'll send it back, too, and do that until we get one that works.

I've had a few of these over the years, and they work great at first. Very little effort required to extract the cork, and very fast. Then what I think happens is that the gearing mechanism wears down, so that the gears don't quite mesh as smoothly as when new. Then it take a HUGE effort to pull the cork out, because you're fighting not only the cork's friction, but the friction in the gearing.I have gotten as much as a year or two's worth of use, but then I revert to a wing-type opener.