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chriseast1



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PostPosted: Wed Sep 06, 06 9:42 pm    Post subject: Corks - Which to use Reply with quote
    

My first batch of wine is on the go (Elderberry and blackberry) and although it is a while away I am thinking about how best to bottle it. I am going to use saved wine bottles but wondered how best to seal them. I have seen both real and re-useable plastic corks for sale in Wilkos. Does anybody have a preference? Are they advantages to using one over the other?

Mat S



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PostPosted: Wed Sep 06, 06 11:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Get a corker (cork insertion device) and some straight sided corks. The tapered ones don't seal so well and the straight ones go in ok with a corker.

Treacodactyl
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 07, 06 7:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I use the straight sided real cork corks. They seal the wine very well and I've had no leakage from horizontal bottles that have laid flat for over a year (apart from when one went fizzy on me and pushed the cork out but I'd rather that than a bottle go bang). Not tried the plastic corks.

I have a leaver action corker, about £15, and it makes corking very easy. My only complaint is that it's hard to buy untreated corks, most seem to have been coated in silicone to make them easier to insert - something that I find unnecessary with a corker. The quality can be a bit variable as well.

gil
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 07, 06 3:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Straight-sided cork corks here too, but a manual corker (the wooden device, used with a rubber mallet).

sean
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 07, 06 5:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Same as gil. *DON'T* use compound corks, it's asking for stuff to be tainted with TCA.

dpack



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PostPosted: Thu Sep 07, 06 8:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

ones sterillised by boiling or campden tablets

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