Signature corkscrew Amaranth wood in wooden box Made in France

An oval handle, thirteen materials

The Signature sommelier knife, or waiter's corkscrew, was born of a collaboration with a Grand Cru château of Bordeaux: rounded forms, clean lines, and an oval-section handle that fills the palm instead of pressing into it. That oval shape is the signature of the range, and it is what explains the grip. Every piece is made in France, in Thiers (Puy-de-Dôme), the French capital of cutlery. Beneath the material lies the LIGNE W service mechanism. A brushed stainless steel body. A double lever system, that is, two successive resting points on the neck of the bottle: the cork comes out in two stages, straight, without forcing, including the long corks of wines built to age. A Teflon-coated worm, the spiral that enters the cork, coated so it slides in instead of tearing it. An integrated serrated foil cutter, to open the capsule before serving. Thirteen handle materials are offered, from 120 to 250 €: nine woods, three horns and warthog tusk. Each handle is cut from a natural material, so grain, tone and marbling change from one piece to the next: the corkscrew you receive resembles the photograph without being identical to it. The whole comes in a magnetic wooden gift box, which makes it a service tool as much as a gift, for a professional sommelier as well as a wine lover. Amaranth, also called purpleheart, is purple when cut then darkens to a purplish brown within days under light. It is the only frankly coloured material in the collection. Within the W collection, Signature is the sommelier corkscrew defined by noble material and by shape. W Origine, its immediate neighbour, shares exactly the same mechanism and the same dimensions, but offers a single wood, oak from barrels that aged great wines, in a kraft cardboard box sealed with wax, from 45 €. Signature instead opens a choice of thirteen woods and horns on an oval handle, in a magnetic wooden box, from 120 to 250 €. Further down the brand the mechanism does not change, only the material does: L'Essentiel (15 €) mounts it on a soft TPR handle, L'Iroquois Colors (24 €) on bio-based PLA, L'Iroquois Wood (30 to 34 €) on hevea, Urban (39 to 49 €) on printed PBT, laser-engraved wood or zinc. What separates these ranges is therefore the material, the packaging and the warranty term, not the performance at opening. Compared with a Château LAGUIOLE® sommelier knife, the difference is one of construction, not of standing. Signature has no forged bee, no bolsters, the metal pieces set at the ends of the handle, no visible liner, the metal plate the handle is mounted on, and no guilloché spring, that is, a spring engraved with fine decorative lines. Nor does it have a bottle-cap lever. It is a contemporary, pared-back tool whose argument is the handle and the double lever, where Château LAGUIOLE® puts forward forged ornament and its sommellerie history opened in 1993. LIGNE W was founded in 2008 by Sébastien Lézier, and became known for its double-lever sommelier corkscrews. They are made in France, in Thiers (Puy-de-Dôme). Since late 2017 LIGNE W has also led Château LAGUIOLE®, created in 1993 by the sommelier Guy Vialis, who died in 2016; both brands have lived since 2021 under the umbrella brand Maison Château LAGUIOLE. Signature appears in the house catalogue with its dimensions, its weight and a 5-year warranty, the term confirmed by the CEO on 12/09/2026. The lifetime warranty is a separate scheme: it is reserved for Château LAGUIOLE® knives registered with the Privilege Member Programme, and does not extend to LIGNE W ranges. Reference LW07528 carries the EAN code 3700761414012, recorded in our management system.