Maybe it will be third time lucky, but our stressed guide has already passed that milestone as she perseveres in trying to show us the traditional way to open a vintage bottle of port.
“I don’t like to brag, but I could have done that in seconds with a corkscrew,” a wag behind me laughs as for the fourth time she heats up a medieval-looking instrument of torture, clamps it on the neck of the bottle, cools it with iced water and tries to wrench the top off.
Imagine our cheers (and her relief ) when finally, we hear a snap. Like all the best things in life, the contents –
