OPINEL No10 Corkscrew Wine Cheese Knife 001410

The opined was a gift so I can’t comment. But I was pleased to get it in a very timely manner.

Bought this as a gift for my wife to be our picnic companion. Sure, sometimes picnics are less wine and cheese and more PB&J but the knife works great to cut up an apple just as easily as slicing Stilton. Less one star for requiring a little oomph to pull out a cork but that's the price you pay for design and not having a pivot.

This knife gives the expected Opinel quality - that is to say excellent, at a price that is more than a bargain - with a twist (zing!). It would be the ultimate picnic knife, if only we didn't live in a dystopian police state where uncorking a bottle of wine in a park can get you tossed in the joint. The blade geometry of an Opinel lets you cut bread, cheese, pastry, what have you, with ease, and it being a #10 gives you plenty of blade for whatever size food you're cutting.

For the Opinel purists out there, no, it's not carbon steel, but it is Sandvik 12c27, which is a damn fine and easy-to-sharpen stainless. As such, it has the unstained (but still varnished) handle typical of "inox" Opinels.

A great knife to have in your kitchen or glove compartment, or to give as a gift.