Delicious/ Dangerous Duality
By Ari Friedland • Mar 16th, 2007 • Category: Blogs, The Second Glass
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So I’m opening up a Bechtheimer Stein Gewurztraminer Spatlese last night, and I’m cooking up some dinner (a little tomato-based sauteed vegetable number)… and not particularly looking for any trouble. But trouble found me. This bottle had a strange dual cork/cap system, with a metal semi-screw cap holding down a glass stopper. I was totally fascinated until the difficult-to-remove metal cap sliced the shit out of my thumb, at which point my curious fascination quickly dissolved into raging fury and panic. It’s almost like that one time in high school when I opened up a corona and the entire rim of the glass bottle crumbled deep into my fingers. That was fun. See the curious cap/stopper, sans blood.
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