It wasn't so long ago - well within living memory - that to do battle with a bottle of wine, one first had to do battle with its cork. And extracting the cork was quite a feat of ingenuity, muscle control and hand-eye coordination, we can tell you.

That was all well before the days of screw caps, of course, which made opening a bottle of wine a functional pleasure, though not, sadly, quite as much of an artistic challenge. But on those rare occasions when one splashes out on a little lady, and require a corkscrew to remove the cork in one's bottle, there are none better, sleeker or more metallic than the Tower of Power.

This versatile and highly contemporary device is able to open the new-fangled synthetic as well as the old fangled cork closures (as they're known in the oenological business). It also possesses a pop-out flap so that it can quite easily expand to accommodate those trendy bottles with a wider neck, rim or trim.

There's even a handy foil cutter to remove that troublesome foil that so regularly cuts the fingers of one's butler of manservant. One initially thought that the Tower of Power was a towering name for a relatively small contraption. But, once in action for real, at the front line of social endeavour, we are confident that you will see that its name is fully justified. Bravo.