Originally published in the December issue of Robb Report Collection as “No Crumbling, No Grumbling”

If corks aged as well as the wine they protect, Mark Taylor never would have invented the Durand corkscrew (thedurand.com, $125). The Atlanta wine collector and retired real-estate developer ingeniously combined the traditional wormed corkscrew and the pronged Ah-So design to create a hybrid that cleanly extracts fragile corks from old bottles. Though Taylor calls the idea “pretty obvious,” it actually took …