The first bottling event of Vinoland's bottling season went without a hitch today. Vinomaker has been busy all week sourcing pallets of Burgundy style bottles (for a 2010 Sonoma Syrah) and vacuum-sealed bags of SO2 treated corks.
Whilst I do appreciate the incontrovertible simplicity of a screw cap closure (on an inexpensive white wine perhaps), I am a big fan of cork - I think I've mentioned that before. Screw caps are perhaps the perfect wine-bottle closure in technical terms, but I still favour the age old tradition of a natural cork closure. Call me old-fashioned.
Someone once advocated to me the use of crown caps for wine bottles (especially for home-winemaking), the very same closure as one would find atop a beer bottle. Far fetched? Hardly, considering even the very finest champagnes on the planet are sealed with crown caps all the way through tirage and remuage etc. I can imagine dégorgement would be much more difficult a process if dealing with a cork.
Funny, suddenly I feel like a glass of something bubbly. Beer, or champagne?
Someone once advocated to me the use of crown caps for wine bottles (especially for home-winemaking), the very same closure as one would find atop a beer bottle. Far fetched? Hardly, considering even the very finest champagnes on the planet are sealed with crown caps all the way through tirage and remuage etc. I can imagine dégorgement would be much more difficult a process if dealing with a cork.
Funny, suddenly I feel like a glass of something bubbly. Beer, or champagne?
6 comments:
I see its hot today in Napa so cold cold lager is the order of the day.
Both?
Amen! wine?
Is that cork prominent for a reason? Some epiphany?
I should have said: I'm in-Cline-d to see this as an affirmation of your corky preference for its old fashion usage.
Thud: Yes, it was 102. Lots of water and a rosé of Malbec.
Thomas: Both have bubbles.
NHW: That cork is from a bottle of 'Leap of Faith' a non-commercial wine made by an acquaintance.
Are the corks from Diam?
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