[Growwine] Wine Bottle Closures

[Terry Rayner]

For home use I switched from cork to Noma Cork about 3 yrs ago due to an increasing number of corked wines from the corks that I was using. So far no issues with the Noma Cork but they hard to put back into the bottle. Not too bad to take out.

For the winery we decided to use a good quality Ganau cork in part due to the perceptions by those purchasing wines wrt screw cap and synthetic corks. 

Terry
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: J & A Baker 
  To: Growwine 
  Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 8:39 AM
  Subject: [Growwine] Wine Bottle Closures


  I’m looking for some feedback on the above.

   

  After 26 years of using regular corks, with some nominal / occasional loss, I switched to Noma (synthetic) Corks.

   

  Now I am not certain that it was a good decision so I am hopeful of receiving some comments on others observations.  I have not experienced serious problems but I do have some concerns about freshness and possible oxidation.  I know that a western US winery undertook a 4 year study on closures and determined that screw caps were the best.  In fact, they even selected a particular type of screw cap to use in their winery.  Unfortunately, screw caps do not appear to be a reasonable option for home winemakers.

   

  As a part of that comment they alluded to the fact that synthetic corks might be TOO tight, locking in an amount of oxygen when it is corked.  Maybe my concern is unwarranted but observations of others would be appreciated.

   

  Many thanks,

   

  Alan Baker



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