Was it one of those newfangled plastic or rubberish corks??


"Sheldon" > wrote in message
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> jmcquown wrote:
> > 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.
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> It's good you're okay but what you describe is an oddity (very strange
> occurance), I can't imagine the cork wouldn't have simply popped out.
> Folks push corks back into partially full wine bottles all the time, I
> do it myself... every once in a while gas from sparkling wines or just
> re-fermentaion will ease the cork back out. Even laboratorys use corks
> rather than screw tops, so the cork will pop out before the bottle
> bursts. For more than 40 years I've been buying gallon jugs of Gallo
> wine by the case, and these are screw caps, can't pop out... never once
> did a jug burst, and we're talking thousands of jugs... which reminds
> me, got a case sitting in my car since last week... now you have me
> worried I will find it exploded. Methinks you forced that cork back in
> with gorilla glue... and that bottle had to of somehow been damaged
> after you opened it. You say it was sitting all week, perhaps you left
> it in a sunny spot, then it could get awfully warm and just the air
> could expand enough to burst a bottle... but not with a cork unless the
> bottle was somehow damaged... ya know, you drank that entire bottle...
> sure you didn't give it bang but just don't remember.
>
> Sheldon
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