●Made in California. Designed, patented and built by the same family since 1961.
●Refills never discontinued. An opener bought twenty years ago still takes the cartridge we sell today.
●Direct from the manufacturer. Not a marketplace reseller, so you get the real thing and our warranty.
Nobody sets out to buy a foil cutter. Then you use one once, and you stop sawing at the top of a bottle with a paring knife.
Sit it on the neck, twist, lift. The foil comes away as a clean ring, level with the lip — which matters more than it sounds, because that lip is exactly what the wine runs over when you pour. A ragged edge catches drips; a clean one doesn’t.
Why four blades and not two
Two-blade cutters pinch the foil and tear it, and they struggle on the heavier foils that tend to come on older and better bottles. Four blades grip the neck evenly from all sides and cut rather than crush. That is the whole difference between a clean ring and a mangled one.
- Four metal blades, enclosed — nothing sharp to catch a finger on
- Approximately 3" × 2": lives in a drawer, a picnic basket or a jacket pocket
- Easy to grip, even with damp hands
- Individually fitted in protective packaging — it arrives giftable
Eight dollars, it works on every bottle you will ever open, and it is the thing guests borrow and forget to hand back. Pair it with a Cork Pops opener and the whole job — foil off, cork out, no screw anywhere near it — takes about five seconds.
Part of the Giovanni Collection, from the family that has been making Cork Pops in Novato, California since the opener was patented in 1964.