I ordered some noma 300s and got them today but not sure they are 300s. Everywhere I look online states they should have customized printing on them from nomacorc their brand name basically. Mine are plain corks and when ran through the floor corker, it just absolutely mashes the top of them and puts a massive dent in them.
Dang! That sort of supports my comment about Nomacorc being confusing. Makes me wonder what we're all getting.
I asked the vendor 3 or more times and he said 300 was what was labeled on his package. However I've been mailed a freezer bag with 100 corks and no information on the label. Just a price and their website. I'm frankly getting really annoyed with corks these days. I used to have a shop here that knew what they had and good pricing but they closed out years ago. I'm hesitant to go to cork again because of all the different grades and the last time I used cork, I lost an entire batch because they failed and were absolute trash.
Time to have another discussion with the vendor?
Are your nomacorcs plain or do they have company writing on them?
Here is how bad my nomacorcs are indenting. Seems a bit much imo?
I've been using the 900s for a couple years with a Portuguese floor corker and have never had denting like that. The Nomacorcs from LD Carlson don't say what they are other then Nomacorc and the size. No number designation. On the website, LabelPeelers says they're good for 2 years in the 100 bag description and 10 years in the 1000 bag description. Confusing at best.
The bag of 1,000 I purchased is from Vinventions, the Nomacorc distributor and the bag says Select Green 900. These are 1-3/4" and are plain, no writing.
I get a small indent that disappears other than a small mark after a few days. I have the blue Italian corker.
I downloaded the PDF spec sheets, which hadn't been updated in a few years. It wasn't clear and took a fair amount of hunting to discover that Vinventions distributes Nomacorc.
Where are you buying them? Mine is an Italian floor corker. Portuguese is too small for how many bottles I can end up doing in a year lol.
I buy mine at Label Peelers.
Lol those are #9s and while they say the cork is good for 10 years, it's actually not. It's amazing how insanely misinformed these distributors are. Blows my mind.
I have used the select green 300s, they have no markings on them. The top from your picture look correct with the slight groves on both ends. Also select 300s are not supposed to go through a floor corker. They are supposed to go through a pneumatic corker. However, I use this priming technique with a floor corker and it works well. You prime the cork 5-7 times, meaning lightly squeezing the cork in the floor corker jaws, releasing, and then giving it a quarter turn. Repeat the process 5-7 times. It will prevent pinching/scoring the cork which will create leakers. Not sure if it will help your indent problem at the top. I do not get that with my floor corker. Technically only the 900s are made to go through a floor corker. However, I have done the select 100s and Reserva with great success with the priming technique I described.
They're 900s which is what I said they were.
Found out these are 950s and the company I ordered from royally screwed up.
A lot of folks have reported heavy scoring of Nomacorcs when using the Portuguese corker. I get light scoring with the Italian, but have had only a few Nomacorc leak in over 1,000 bottles.
Nomacorc in a fairly dry bottle neck is all that I use
Maybe something has changed, but I did a deep dive in 2017 in finding a good supply a better higher grade Nomacorcs. Vinventions was a main supplier of bulk Nomacorc for custom printing. Their rep said only select 900s were designed to be used in a floor corker. They used to have documentation on their website when selecting for corks too. Also, It would ask what type or corker you had, and wouldn’t give you options of the Nomacorc Select 500 and below including the Reserva line. I have an Italian style floor corker with the plastic jaws. Mine had scored the thicker and denser corks (select100 and Reserva) select 300s could be hit or miss too.
Care to sell me 500 and ship to Canada?
