6 months - so far: Flawless
I've been into sampling wine now for about 6 months. I read the reviews, looked at the prices, and decided to start with this device as a "de-corker."Well, by now I've decided that if I've got more money I want to spend, it's for wine not for a different corkscrew since this one has opened many bottles with zero failures.You line up the opener, turn the screw, watch the wings unfold, turn down the wings and the cork comes out with no problems. It has not yet failed to remove all of the cork, whole, with no fragments. It's fast, clean, relatively effortless, and cheap.I'm an obvious "newbie" to wine, but seriously - this thing is really underpriced. I'm ordering another for a backup.