It's not just your imagination—there are a lot of tacky wine gifts out there. (One personal favorite: a doormat that reads "We serve only the finest vintage wines...Did you bring any?" Har, har.) Still, since all the wine lovers on your holiday shopping list are Cary Grant—like paragons of suavity, you will just have to dig a little deeper. For a stocking stuffer, you can't go wrong with the Tire-Bouchon Zig-Zag (tire-bouchon means "cork pull," mes amis), an accordionlike, kinetic sculpture of a corkscrew that works like a dream, saving your wrist from the dreaded effects of "sommelier's syndrome"—kind of like tennis elbow, except that I just made it up—and graceless wrassling with a recalcitrant cork. The Zig-Zag has a satisfying heft to it, pops bottle caps as a sideline and most importantly, makes a mundane chore fun again. It's $34 at www.corkscrew.com. (And yes, there is a website devoted to corkscrews.)
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