Cork Pops Legacy wine opener holding a lifted cork, beside a box of two refill cartridges
Made in California since 1961

Cork Pops Starter Set — Legacy Opener + Refill Cartridges

166 reviews
$45.00 $49.50
✓ Ships from our Novato warehouse
Cartridges
Cork Pops refill cartridges, two per box Add refill cartridges while you are here Cork Pops Refill Cartridges — 2 Cartridges$15.00
●Made in California. Designed, patented and built by the same family since 1961.
●Refills never discontinued. An opener bought twenty years ago still takes the cartridge we sell today.
●Direct from the manufacturer. Not a marketplace reseller, so you get the real thing and our warranty.

Everything needed to open a bottle in three seconds: the Legacy opener and the gas cartridges to run it, with two or six in the box.

The opener has no screw and no lever. The needle slides past the cork, a breath of inert gas lifts it out whole, and the bottle is open. No wrists, no shoulders, no broken corks.

Each cartridge opens roughly 60 to 80 bottles. Two cartridges open about 120 to 160 bottles — for most households, well over a year. Six open about 360 to 480. They fit every Cork Pops opener ever made, and they are sold separately whenever you need more.

Bought together the two-cartridge set saves $4.50 and the six-cartridge set saves $20.50 against buying the pieces separately. Both ship free.

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In the wild

Real bottles, real reactions

Customer and creator video — the section that fills itself once the TikTok programme is running.

How it works

Pressure—not brute force.

A needle through the cork, one press, and a puff of inert gas lifts it out whole — the same mechanism the family patented and has been building in California ever since.

Pierce
01

Pierce

Use the built-in foil cutter, then guide the needle straight down through the center of the cork.

Press
02

Press

One press releases the gas beneath the cork.

Pop
03

Pop

The pressure lifts the cork cleanly and intact—no twisting, pulling or crumbling.

Invented here · Patented 1964 · Still made here

This is the original. Not a version of it.

A machinist in Northern California worked out how to open a bottle without pulling the cork, and patented it in 1964. His family has made it in Novato ever since, across eight patents and two generations. Everything else that opens a bottle this way came afterwards.

  1. 1961 George Federighi works out that a cork can be lifted with gas instead of pulled with a screw.
  2. 1964 He patents it. Ejective pressurized cork.US 3,135,410
  3. 1986 A metering valve makes the pressure right on a fresh cork and on a forty-year-old one.US 4,791,834
  4. 1989 His son founds Cork Pops in Novato, California, and starts building it properly.
  5. 2002 The needle carrier is made to rotate as it descends — the twist action on the Legacy today.US 6,622,595
  6. Today Eight patents, two generations, same family, same town. Every cartridge still fits every opener.

And the cartridge has never been redesigned out of compatibility — an opener bought decades ago takes the one we sell today. That is a deliberate decision by the people who invented it, and it is not something a copy can offer.

Read the whole story, with the original patent drawings →
What customers say

Reviews

4.5
out of 5 · 166 reviews
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A family business that still makes the thing it invented.
Est. 1961

A family business that still makes the thing it invented.

It started in a workshop in 1961. Three generations later the family still holds the patent, still runs the line in Novato, California, and still packs the cartridges that go in the box.

That is why the refills never disappear, why an opener bought years ago still takes a standard cartridge, and why the thing feels like it was made by someone who cared.

1961Family owned since
CaliforniaWhere the opener is made
4.6★Across the range