Opening biggest wine bottle and decanting

Okay, what we're going to try and do is figure out how to open this Nebuchadnezzar of Domaine de Chevalier 1998. Nebuchadnezzar is a 15 litre bottle or the equivalent of 18 bottles and the real problem with it is one the corks a monster to get out and then secondly how to get the wine and we're going to try and do that using a siphon or siphon. So this capsule protects the wine and the cork but it is a pain in the neck to get rid of and I don't think my wife's going to be very happy when she sees the mess. Right, now levers and all that stuff don't really work with these type of corks. You've got to use the old-fashioned vertical pull method. What we're going to do, you're not holding it down, there she comes. What a beauty, look at that. They smell all right. I hope so. I don't think smelling the cork tells you anything anyhow but that's not here. But the waiters normally do that. I know because they don't know what they're doing. So what we're now going to do and the problem we have to solve is we're going to use this medical grade silicone tubing. We're going to measure the length inside the bottle and put a mark and that's as deep as we want to go. But we need to find a way of securing it while it's in the bottle and my solution is to take the cork. I don't know whether it's a good solution and see if I can drill two holes. Those two holes, one for breathing to let the air in and one to enable us to filter. Okay, so we've got the bottle open, this is the cork and what we've done, we've made by drilling through the cork and we've pushed the half inch silicone tubing through. Now one is to let the air in, the second one is to now, we've got to measure it so that we don't want it on the very bottom because then it will be sucking up the sediment as opposed to the good wine. But it looks like that's pretty close to the bottom so I'm going to put a mark on here with a pen that you can't see but that's okay. So that's as far in as we want to use it. Now I'm going to pull that up so that we get the good wine and we don't have any risks. So now, now this may not fit back in but that's Murphy's board and it doesn't need to be the cork but it has to be something that is going to enable the siphoning equipment to stay in place. And then what we want is a length that goes below the bottle here say and we're going to cut it here. So just take that. Now from a home winemaking beer supplies place I got this tap. So the idea is once we get the siphon going I'll pinch it, put the tap in, close it and then we're going to be able to at will uh fill. Now I don't like the way that kinks over so I'm gonna have to have a look at that but this is the best bit of course folks drinking a Nebuchadnezzar through a straw. Well that's very nice. So there we go. We start filling. What have I done? I haven't got it low enough. That's the problem. Okay can you um just hold that? Thank you. I'm gonna make him move it. Put the tap in. Okay so now does it work? Sort of. I'm gonna be hammered before it starts working. Hold it lower. Oh wow. You need to keep the tube open. Okay. Oh it's going now. So what we've got going here is our first encounter of Domaine de Chevalier. It's almost full. Yeah dad it's getting full. And then we switch it off. Domaine de Chevalier Nebuchadnezzar on tap. What could be better?