ANSWERS: 6
  • G'day July, Thank you for your question. It is part of the bottling process to design corks to fit the bottles. However, many winemakers these days are using screwtops. Regards
  • A cork is inserted into the neck of the wine bottle using a little implement called...wait for it...a corker. This is a tool that compresses the cork and inserts it, then releases it so it can expand to fill the bottle neck. Corks come in a variety of lengths and thicknesses, and are used for different purposes. Thicknesses are measured as #7, #8, #9 & #10 corks. The thinnest (#7) is used for wine that will not be stored for very long, as they are more likely to leak air into the bottle, causing premature aging or spoilage. Thicker and longer corks would be used for wines that are intended to be stored for a number of years. FYI, you can usually insert the smaller corks by hand. Soak them for about an hour in warm water to soften them, and you can usually stuff them into the neck. Use a rubber mallet to GENTLY tap the cork the rest of the way in. The pictures are of a bench-top corker and a hand corker. Both of these are readily available from winemaking suppliers.
  • They actually build the bottle around the cork joking actually im not sure exactly
  • with a bottle corker.
  • they use dragon from outer space, almost similar too the giant dog thing from never ending story.
  • I'm guessing but I bet I am right. They soak the cork until it is pliable and then squeeze all the water out until it is smaller than the opening and then it swells back to it's natural state.

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