"jmcquown" > wrote in message
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>I never thought such a thing would be possible but I just had an explosion
> in my kitchen. There are glass shards everywhere! I had an empty bottle of
> merlot from last week, sitting, corked, waiting to be taken out to the trash
> and it EXPLODED. Apparently this thing built up gasses or something because
> I'd put the cork back in the empty bottle. It looks like a terrorist just
> visited my kitchen. Don't put corks back in empty wine bottles unless you
> intend to take them out to be disposed of immediately.
>
> This has been a public service announcement from someone who just cut her
> hand on broken wine bottle glass and now has to vacuum the kitchen floor.
>
> Jill
> --
> I used to have a handle on life...but it broke off.

1. Glad you're OK.
2. It certainly is strange that there would be enough liquid and/or live
culture left in the bottle to create that level of gas.
3. I've heard of this with full bottles but not empty ones.
4. As a possible explanation if you closed the bottle at a very cold time
(weather) under a high pressure condition and then your area transitioned to a
very low pressure hot time maybe there would be enough difference to cause the
bottle to shatter. I do however suspect that based upon the way the class
shattered I think there was something wrong with the glass. Maybe it was unduly
stressed somehow.

Dimitri