The champagne, which had been discreetly placed out of sight but within reach, was there for the uncorking.

The highlight is often the uncorking of a bottle of champagne.

A useful analogy to this process is the uncorking of a shaken bottle of champagne.

This mismatch between fashion and season is part of Paraguay's "destape," or cultural uncorking.

Fontine could hear the uncorking of bottles.

Within 20 minutes of the uncorking, this dry wine started evolving toward a "sweetness" that heightened its immediate approachability.

Not that "Fortune's Fool," as a whole, calls for the uncorking of Champagne.

In the air, thirsty mosquito clans gathered in great numbers, anticipating an uncorking of blood.

Twenty minutes after the uncorking, this beautifully balanced, medium-bodied 100 percent merlot wine began to change kaleidoscopically in the glass.

There was chatter from table to table, pockets of laughter and the occasional uncorking of wine bottles before the music started.

No jumps for joy, no uncorking of sparkling wines or emotions, no Tarzanish chest-pounding.

"It's a collective uncorking.

Fifteen minutes after the uncorking, its aromas and flavors flower, evoking memories of lingered-over garden dinners in northwestern Italy.

Much earlier, he also wrote a 'joke-polka' (German "scherz-polka") entitled 'Champagne-polka', opus 211, which evokes the uncorking of champagne bottles.

"The Uncorking of Uncle Finn" (Jane Yolen)

He tiptoed around danger against the A's and managed to win despite walking four batters and working so deep in counts that he left after uncorking 118 pitches.

I needed the latter as an antidote to all the rare tuna, seared swordfish, dandelion green salads and other healthy offerings that came with the uncorking of vintage bottled water.

Personable and firm at the uncorking, the wine displayed a grapy aroma redolent of black currant; the flavor during dinner was vivacious but restrained, and by next morning everything had loosened up.

The announcement, which was widely expected, was greeted here with the uncorking of bottles of Champagne by hundreds of cheering demonstrators, who waved black-and-white photographs of their dead or missing loved ones.

Some of the people sitting in the circle began an unpacking of the hampers and an uncorking of the bottles and I knew that more than likely they'd ask me to eat with them.

CONNOISSEURS of advertising savor recollections of the kickoffs of corporate image campaigns like the uncorking of fine, and not so fine, wines.

But Marge Schott of Cincinnati said, "I'm all for the traditional uncorking of champagne, but I'm also very conscious of our image with our fans from the five states around us."

It was a rush of power and elation, an uncorking of emotion I had kept bottled up for the tensest four hours and forty-eight minutes of my life, an invasion of the purest joy.

But I knew last night that they were going to uncork you.

He uncorked the wine and set it in the middle.

At times, that passion has been uncorked on the court.

He uncorked a bottle and held it to the light.

Instead he uncorked the bottle and pulled out the paper.

"You want to uncork one and get some glasses out?"

A man needed two good hands to uncork wine properly.

He uncorked it with his teeth and took a long drink.

He uncorked the bulk of his energy in the third quarter.

I uncorked the gourd and took some of the water.

"The wine will stay fresh for approximately four days after uncorking."

He uncorked a debate on the meaning of the word "fair."

Rachel took out the little brown bottle and uncorked it.

You encouraged him to uncork, now you're stuck with it.

Replies: Leave it uncorked at room temperature for a while.

Then he opened the book and uncorked the ink bottle.

Sometimes they need a place to unwind and, as it were, to uncork.

He uncorked the bottle, shook the note out into his waiting hand.

"After she's snorted a good part of it she'll be happy to uncork herself."

Those living hands uncorked it and poured three drops into the glass.

Nearly 10 months later, I uncorked a second bottle and found a memorable wine.

Craig uncorked some strong throws from center field to home plate.

He picked up the bottle, uncorked it and filled the glass.

Uncork the body, and God knows what you permit to come tumbling out.

He uncorked the flask and put it to his lips.