Bottle capping wine

[brushwood24]

Is there a reason not to bottle cap wine? I did a search on this forum and a google search to see if anyone was doing it and couldn't really find anything. I found plenty of information about screw caps, but wouldn't a crimped cap be basically the same thing but a lot cheaper to do? I'm thinking about trying it with some of the mead I am making but that got me to wondering why not do the same thing with wine? Is there an issue with long term storage of capped liquid? I would guess it's pretty airtight since that's the closure used for so many carbonated beverages.

 

[grapeman]

It will work alright with beer bottles. A number of us use them for small samplers.

 

[cpfan]

I believe that most champagne or sparling wine bottles can be crown capped. Also look for 22oz beer bottles.


Steve

 

[brushwood24]

I'm definitely going to try capping some bottles. I've seen some pretty large beer bottles and I'll see if I can get my hands on them. I'm also going to bottle some small bottles as well. They'll work great for sampling the wine as it ages.

 

[Scott]

It works great to cap beer bottles for wine. First you get to buy some fine beer with non twist off's, then"empty" them. Have used 12oz up to Quart bottles.


Enjoy