"Negodki" > wrote in message
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> "Karen Lambert" > wrote:
> > how much is too much air space?
> snip.....
>If you can be sure that there will not be
> such a temperature increase (even if there is a power failure and your
> refrigeration system goes south for the winter), you could use 1/2-3/4" on
> all vessels, but the same surface area would be exposed, and there would
be
> little difference in oxidation.
>snip.........

Wouldn't the amount of oxygen available is proportional to the _volume_ of
the head space, and the _rate_ of transfer to the wine would be proportional
to the surface area?
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