amnspam (Dale Williams) wrote in message ...

BTW, am I the only person who finds that synthetic corks (I've opened several
recently, from Verget and other producers) are really tight/hard to get out
with a waiter's corkscrew, and then hard to get off the worm? Not to mention
that they usually won't go back in bottle if you don't finish.
Dale


I've found it depends on the synthetic. Unfortunately, Supremecorq
(many colors, looks like it's molded from "curds" of some sort, almost
incompressible) is the market leader and between it and its clones is
the most common one. This one is truly hell on corkscrews in general
- and on Ah-so's, for that matter. OTOH, Nomocorq and Neocork, two
outwardly similar synthetics (relatively spongy center, slippery
extruded outer sleeve, usually more or less natural color) are fine
with normal openers.

- Mark W.