I recently bottled some wine and I didn't realize until too late that I had
some really awful looking corks on hand. These were not agglomerated they
were plain cork. They were very uneven with dents and crevices. They
looked like they were shaped by someone with a knife who had too much wine
to drink. It was almost impossible to find a smooth area that would go all
the way around the circumference.

I decided to go ahead and bottle since I had already sterilized the bottles
and had already filled quite a few. As I suspected many of the bottles
leaked within a few days. I stood these up and drank them over the coming
month.

I was surprised to find some of the corks broke in half during removal.
At first I thought it was probably that they were bad corks but now I am
wondering if my wine cellar is too dry. Would the corks breaking in half
be a symptom of this?

Has anyone else experienced these type of problems with corks?

Joe