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Default Bottles explode during corking, Help

Really? Do you find a difference? Anyone else do this?
Very interesting. So you shoot into the top 1/2 to 3/4 inch of space a
inert-gas shot - and cork. how do you do that? Like within a few
seconds? or once you spray, it's heavy so no hurry? or within a second?

DAve

Rob wrote:
>>> Does anyone fill the bottle ullage with inert
>>> gas? I have about 15 gallons to bottle in about
>>> 90 days, and plan to top them all off with
>>> argon.

>> I know that at least some if not most commercial
>> wineries use Nitrogen which would be cheaper than
>> Argon. Argon does carry some risk if used in
>> very confining environments

>
> On wines I expect to store for a while, I get one of those inert-gas
> cans for wine preservation and give each bottle a shot before
> corking.
>
> Rob