I asked David Gordon, the wine director for Wine Spectator Grand Award winner Tribeca Grill and who headed the team of all-star somms that opened and screened all the bottles served at ... You can ...

What's more, the red wax on your Maker's Mark bottle is hand-dipped, just as the very first Maker's Mark bottles were in 1958. That's right. Every Maker's Mark bottle is dipped into melted red wax ...

chip away at the wax first with a knife and then use your corkscrew, or, if you're not concerned about stirring up sediment, you can melt the capsule off by dipping it into a cup of very hot water.