Help opening a cheap "twist-and-pop" champagne bottle?

Question

I have a cheap bottle of champagne, the kind where you twist a metal top to open it. I'm supposed to twist it until I hear a pop, but it never happens. The top never seems to get tighter or looser no matter how much I twist it? Am I missing something or is there something wrong with the bottle? And to think this was supposed to make Champagne easier to open (lol)! Any help is appreciated.

It's not a traditional cork bottle. It has a metal cap on top, similar to beer and soda bottles but it's noticeably bigger. Twisting the top apparently pulls out the stopper, and I should hear a 'pop' when this happens. The problem is that it never happens, I twist and twist and nothing ever happens. It's not any of the bottle tops listed in the link "didntevengetachance" listed, unfortunately.

Answer 1

do you mean it has a crown cap seal like a beer bottle?

some sparkling wines are now being released with these but they are not of the twist release type like many beer bottles but the old style you need to use a bottle opener on

they are also not strictly just for cheap wine.
they actually offer a better and more reliable seal than cork and in fact have been used quite some time as the seals used during the secondary fermentation in the bottle of even the most expensive sparkling wines and are replaced by the "classier" corks during the process of removing the yeast sediment from the bottles

see the source link

*** EDIT ***

I did find this article (includes illustration) on a new closure, described as "twist and pop", Gallo was testing
http://forums.detnews.com/wine/columns/silfven/details.cfm?id=89
this now appears to have gone into wider use
http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/summary_0199-3916754_ITM

I could find no direct reference to the closure manufacturer but did find a European company RPC which makes a closure specifically called "Twist & Pop" and my be the source of the Gallo tops
http://rpc.xture.com/xture/xt_view.aspx?TT=140672&SB=811278

it is unclear from the photos, and you don't say, whether the top has the kind of break off tamper-proof ring found on plastic soda tops or the metal still wine closures like the Stelvin cap. I have found the occasional bottle where the cap has been applied too loosely or the thread has "stripped" and so no matter how much you turn the top stays on, held down by the attachment to the tamper-proof ring. Breaking the points of attachment of the cap to the ring in this circumstance normally allows the cap to be easilly removed, perhaps with a little more than the usual pulling upward at the same time.
similarly even if there is no ring and an outer layer of foil acts as a tamper indicator if the threading is stripped it may be that the friction from the inner "cork" part of the closure is sufficient to stop the cap climbing the threaded top by twisting only and I would recommend trying to open by twisting with a reasonable anount of upward force at the same time

Answer 2

Pop Champagne Bottle

Answer 3

Try grabbing a kitchen towel, place the towel over the neck of the bottle, and rotate and pull on the stopper until it pops out. Enjoy the bubbly!

Answer 4

Since you've shaken it, let it sit in the fridge for a while, or you'll get a bunch of bubble mess.
The plastic top is held in by ridges, after you've taken off the wire and plastic sealer. So you must move the top side to side and rotate it a bit, too, carefully.
Otherwise you'll lose your bubbly.
And it still can "Pop" on you - watch your eyes!
To your health!

Answer 5

No it was New Years eve the point is to drink champagne at midnight i thought! Tell friends to lighten up a bit!

Answer 6

Break it off on the counter and swill from the bottle! Arghhh!