Try on your "surgeon hands" and see if you can't screw down right beside
the other corkscrew and pull out the cork and the screw both. It take some
practice and persistence and a steady hand, but it does work. I have done this
on a few occasions myself.
You can also "push" the cork into the bottle and use a linen to extract it.
If it is a cheap bottle of wine (hint: the plastic cork gives it away in most
cases), you can take a linen and curl it like some people can curl their
tongues.
You then push the curled linen "tongue" down into the bottle until it has
passed where the cork is floating. Here is the tricky part--slowly turn the
bottle to horizontal while slowly pulling the linen tongue back toward the
neck of the bottle. After a few trys you should be able to catch the cork
between the tongue and the bottle neck, thereby trapping it and slowly pull it
out of the neck and into the light!
Cheers,
Corey Keys
www.totallyfreebartending.com
"Where Bartender Training is On the House!"