[joeswine]

HAS ANYONE TRIED TO MAKE THIS GEM YET???????????????????

[joeswine]

Welcome to the wonderfull woLD of corks.

Next on the menue..stay tuned

[joeswine]

Cork, what do we know about?

Where do they come from?

How many different types are there ?

How do they affect the ecosystem?

Are they sustainable?

[joeswine]

CORKS, I mean really, do we knew, where they came from? and what regions,. We take them out of the bag, place them in our corker and press them into the bottles .

But if you think about for a a minute, they are worlds unto themselves -with a little research their quite interesting actually .

Let's begin environmentally friendly harvested , corks is a 100% natural , renewable, recyclable, biodegradable material that is obtained from environmentally friendly harvesting process .

There are approximately 6.6 million acres of of renewable Forrest that extended across Portugal , Spain, Algeria , , Morocco, Italy, Tunisia and France . . These Oak Forest support one of the world's highest levels of forest biodiversity , second only to the Amazonian rainforest .

Trees are not cut down to harvest cork, rather , the Bark is harvested by hand every nine years. cork oak trees can live to 300 years!
Imagine that every nine years the bark is removed mother nature is smart enough to know , To put it back, and we are smart enough to know how to maintain this industry that is supportive of sustainable livelihoods as the cork forests provide a vital source of income for thousands of families .
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Interesting subject.............
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[Sudz]

Originally Posted by joeswine

Interesting subject.............
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Okay, I'm hooked.... Feed me more!

[joeswine]

AGGLOMERATED, WINE CORKS ARE SHORT SUGGESTED FOR WINES UP TO ONE HALF YEARS OLD YOUR COMPOSITE CORK ,NUMBER NINE AND THEY'RE AVAILABLE IN TWO LENGTHS ON INCH AND A HALF AND THE OTHER IS INCHING THREE QUARTERS .THE INCH AND A HALF QUIRK IS FOR WINES UP TO ONE HALF YEARS OLD .. THE AND THE INCH, AND THREE- THREE-QUARTER is suggested for wines aging up to two years .
Sometimes a problem arises with CORKS especially style CORKS were mold and bacteria can lodged itself crevices , . This is a common complaint a musty wine , ; Cork taint.


The number nines, an ancient three-quarter are what is all the time . I buy them in a bag with thousand use usually for around hundred dollars , list quite a while and I do nothing special to the just take another bag 30 count the time and bottle wherever warranted bottle . . I IT talked a couple winery some my, who usually are reluctant to say but they do or they don't to but as a gathered none of them do much with the CORKS except enter into a hopper and Cork away .
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The next so Cork is calling natural wine cork,natural wine corks drive the highest quality cork oak .peruderm or b or. these CORKS are suitable for long-term wine storage . they come in three different grades clean first , . Super extra and flor.these courts are thoroughly washed before sales and treated to defend against cork taint . and his have a breakdown
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First Quality natural wine corks suggested for wines up to seven years old , hiatus greed natural course number nine and one and three-quarter inches it's all standard bottles. B
Super quality natural wine corks , . suggested for wines up to nine years old once again higher grade natural cork a number nine and ancient three quarters long that's all standard one .

Extra quality natural wine corks , suggested for wines up to 12 years ,Ventura very high-grade natural cork diameter number nine length inch with records fits Austin on bottles .
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flor Quality Natural wine corks, suggested for wines for aging 12+ years old the highest grade natural course dampener number nine length engines recorders fits Austin bottles .
so there you have that's the beginning the cork .

Stay tuned More to come........ N

[Kramnuko]

Thank you Joe and all contributors

[Sudz]

So, agglomerated number nines at 1 3/4" and you're good to go for wines which may exist for up to two years?

[joeswine]

YES that is correct.....





CORKS ...THE NEXT LEVEL....CONTINUED

[joeswine]

Hi, I'm back to again let's talk a little more a bout CORKS .

What we seen with the economical version to do , whether it's inch and a half or inch and three-quarter in their AND appropriate holding times . Next on the list is natural wine CORKS , these remain the preferred quark of the finest winemakers since the 16th-century when comparison THEY first use them as a wine closure . There selected from the finest high-grade natural CORK and ideal for wines OF all ages, their shelf life is extensive .
Next culminated wine corks our medium grade natural corks with though lintels with the little cracks in them are filled with a compound made from CORK powder . . The colmated wine cork , . This process is intended to simulate and more dense properties of a high-grade natural cor, these type of wine corks are very popular in Europe .

And you thought a cork was just a cork ! C

To be continued.......






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