{"id":2156,"date":"2016-01-10T17:02:04","date_gmt":"2016-01-10T16:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.belpiemonte.com\/en\/?p=2156"},"modified":"2017-08-20T18:52:02","modified_gmt":"2017-08-20T17:52:02","slug":"corkscrew-as-a-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.belpiemonte.com\/en\/corkscrew-as-a-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Corkscrew as a star"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was writing several times about Piedmont<\/strong> wines, smaller and bigger wineries in the Langhe and Roero<\/strong>, however, this time I will concentrate on corkscrew. You may think \u2013 a kitchen utensil like many others, what is to write about? Well, let\u2019s just have a look\u2026<\/p>\n

\"Museum<\/a>
colorful, optimistic, a real pieves of art…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

<\/p>\n

The history of corkscrew is quite mysterious as sources that confirms when exactly the idea came up are unsure. We only know that in the middle of 17th<\/sup> century a tool for opening bottles closed with cork has already existed. However it wasn\u2019t wine, but perfumes, medicines or ink kept in glass vials. Contemporary corkscrew was available in different shapes and sizes \u2013 what is interesting even in pocket version\u2026 Aristocracy, rich people used to order it in the best goldsmiths, that\u2019s why they were made of silver, gold, mother pearl or ivory.<\/p>\n

\"Museum<\/a>
some version with a brush<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The first corkscrew registered patent dates back to 1795 and belongs to the British Reverend Samuel Henshall. But how did the idea of its construction originate, and what it is interesting, till today didn\u2019t change? Apparently a tool to remove unused bullets was the inspiration\u2026<\/p>\n

\"Museum<\/a>
T-shaped corkscrews<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The construction of corkscrew is based on two elements: spirally twisted rod and attached perpendicularly handle, in this way it resembles the T letter. Since the beginning the handle was made of wood, gold, aluminum, ebony and other precious materials. Till today the biggest auction houses attracts collections from all over the world bidding unique pieces made by Cartier<\/strong>, Tiffany<\/strong> or some more modern piece of Gucci<\/strong> or Hermes<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"Museum<\/a>
made of prescius materials<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

No wonder in places where is a culture of drinking wine there are museums dedicated to corkscrew. One of them is Museo dei Cavatappi<\/strong><\/a> in famous Barolo<\/strong> in Piedmont. It\u2019s hosted in an old building in the center of the town with a characteristic sign-board of the huge corkscrew.<\/p>\n

\"Museum<\/a>
it’s impissible to miss the Museum of Corkscrews in Barolo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Museum of the corkscrews owns 600 exhibits, also the ancient one used to open glass vials,\u00a0\u00a0 made of precious materials. During the tour we can admire the most basic ones T-shaped, but also with lever, pocketsize, or the special one used once to open champagne bottles.<\/p>\n

\"Museum<\/a>
The first corkscrews in shapes of human being was born in 20the century by Italian Carlo Gemelli.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

One of the most characteristic are in caricature of congressman Andrew John Volstead shape. In United States in 20-nies of 20th<\/sup> century it was all the collection of corkscrews dedicated to the progenitor of hated prohibition law of 1919, know also as a \u201cVolstead act\u201d.<\/p>\n

\"Museum<\/a>
caricature of congressman Andrew John Volstead<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

<\/del>\"caricature<\/a><\/p>\n

ant another version of caricature of congressman Andrew John Volstead …<\/p>\n

More information about museum you will find on: http:\/\/www.museodeicavatappi.it\/en\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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I was writing several times about Piedmont wines, smaller and bigger wineries in the Langhe and Roero, however, this time I will concentrate on corkscrew. You may think \u2013 a kitchen utensil like many others, what is to write about? Well, let\u2019s just have a look\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[59,5,86,79],"class_list":["post-2156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barolo","tag-barolo","tag-langhe","tag-museum-of-corkscrews","tag-wine-tourism"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.belpiemonte.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.belpiemonte.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.belpiemonte.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.belpiemonte.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.belpiemonte.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2156"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.belpiemonte.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2306,"href":"http:\/\/www.belpiemonte.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156\/revisions\/2306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.belpiemonte.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.belpiemonte.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.belpiemonte.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}