Can i Use old Corks for Bottling
Droopy wrote:
>Murray Clark wrote:
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>>They are cheap. You would ruin your wine by re-using corks. Even with the plastic stoppers you run a high risk of bacterial infection in the wine. You would also have a lot of leakage.
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>Bacterial infection would not be my biggest worry though. I cannot
>think of a really compelling reason to think that used corks have a
>higher risk of bacterial contamination than new corks. i mean they are
>exposed to the same air and dirt. And I assume that you would soak old
>and new corks in sulfite and make sure wine sulfite levels are
>adequate.
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> Used corks have old wine on them. Once the alcohol evaporates mold and fungus can move in. As far as soaking corks in sulfite- I've never done it. Cork will absorb chemicals and the quality of the cork could suffer. I boil corks and use them immediately.
> Exposing wine to air also exposes it to extra unwanted yeast in the air.
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