Metrokane Black Rabbit Corkscrew with Cutter

This works great, removes tight tapered corks without any problems. A little expensive, but at least it does the job well.

Just got one of these from an auction site and can't recommend it enough. It is a simple manoeuvre to uncork your wine. It doesn't take a huge amount of effort and I've never had a cork split or refuse to come out. The spare 'screw' is a good addition, although the original one last for years. It is easy to use and looks good if you have friends over for a drink. Well made and designed to last for ever.

Looked OK but broke on second use. Had to return to Las Vegas!

The corkscrew itself is perfect, easy to use and quick. The foil cutter is less so, being difficult to locate correctly and a little difficult to use

I have used a fair number of corkscrews over the years including those from Screwpull, but this is the best to date. It does what it is meant to do with the minimum of fuss and effort. But the real purpose of this review is to sing the praises of the maker Metrokane. After five years regular use one of the handles broke when I was extracting a cork. I was about to bin it when I noticed that the case said there was a 10-year guarantee, but we all know how worthless these often turn out to be. So without any expectation I emailed the company and surprisingly within 24 hours got a reply from their Customer Services department asking me to send it to them, which I duly did. Five days later a brand new Rabbit arrived in the post. I cannot praise this company enough (and no, I do not work for them nor do any of my friends and family!). Quite brilliant after service. Well done Metrokane. If I could give you 10 stars I would.

Wine cork remover worked great and broke within a month. However, I emailed the company to tell them and they replaced the item immediately. I’m happy.

La calidad es buena y el funcionamiento es excelente

At first, it feels cheap, as it is lighter than most equivalent types of lever corkscrew. But on using it, it works really well and is firmer and smoother than the non-Rabbit one I had previously. Remains to be seen how durable it is with repeated use.

This purchase was a replacement for a Rabbit lever corkscrew that was almost 14 yrs old and had a lot of miles clocked! This is one great corkscrew that anyone can use with no effort at all. If your a wine drinker you need to own one or 2 because your friends will try to steal it when they use it!BEWARE: the electric Rabbit is a piece of junk and should be avoided at all cost! A friend gave us one as a 2011 christmas gift. Right out of the box the LCD screen didn't work. It was replaced by Metrokane free of charge and told to throw it away when the new arrived! NICE customer service! The replacement opened 3 bottles but struggled. Bottle number 4 killed it. Put it back on charger and never opened another bottle again. We were told to return it w/ proof of purchase. Well it was a gift or a replacement for a gift, we don't have a proof of purchase! They told us we needed to send it back w/ $10 for shipping and handling. Well we decicded to use the one we were told to throw out (call me cheap i don't care). It also died after about month of use. We threw them both out! Back to the Origanal Rabbit Classic forever.

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.