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During a recent trip to Italy I spent some time with some home brewers
of wine. Their consensus was that corks were becoming quite inferior construction materials etc. They disliked the plastic corks saying they were too difficult for the home winemaker to use effectively/easily. Their solution was to use crown caps (like beer/pop bottles). - Perhaps something to look into? |
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John LaBella wrote:
> During a recent trip to Italy I spent some time with some home brewers > of wine. > Their consensus was that corks were becoming quite inferior construction > materials etc. > They disliked the plastic corks saying they were too difficult for the > home winemaker to use effectively/easily. > > Their solution was to use crown caps (like beer/pop bottles). > > - Perhaps something to look into? My Italian uncle who died in 1976 between the crush and the press of our annual wine making, always bottled using recycled Pabst Blue Ribbon quart bottles (dark glass) with caps. All these years later I am still using his crusher and press and I still have all of his bottles and the capper even though I currently use wine bottles and corks. Perhaps he was right. Steve - half Italian home brewer. |
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I use crown caps quite frequently, and I suspect I'm not the only one.
They are excellent closures although thus far I have not bottle aged wine in them beyond two years (but still working on that!. I most often use them for putting wine (esp. dessert wine) in small beer bottles. But I will also often put some of our 'house wines' into beer bottles such that we have access to smaller bottles for those evenings when a full bottle is just too much. But I don;t think we have issue with corks that your Italian friends do, do you? On 2007-10-22 02:53:48 -0700, John LaBella > said: > During a recent trip to Italy I spent some time with some home brewers > of wine. > Their consensus was that corks were becoming quite inferior construction > materials etc. > They disliked the plastic corks saying they were too difficult for the > home winemaker to use effectively/easily. > > Their solution was to use crown caps (like beer/pop bottles). > > - Perhaps something to look into? |
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