On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 23:36:28 +0200, IanH > wrote:

>I did point out - moderately pungently, thatanyone with half the IQ of
>an oyster would realise that in a champagne bottle with an internal
>pressure of several bars, the risk of wine being oxidised was hardly
>the most serious likely consequence of an ill fitting cork!
>
>Their correction was lifted almost verbatim from my explanation of
>what caused corked wine.

Ah, so it seems you got there first. I know of at least one other
person (no, not me, though I was tempted) that put them right.

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