Lamarkeiko
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Two days ago I corked 4 bottles of wine from a 1 gal. carboy. The corks kept pushing back up over 1/4" after pushing them in the bottles several times. I know my wine is very stable. The SG hasn't changed the last ten months after three rackings. I soaked the new corks in a sulphite solution for 12 hours as recommended by my book. I am using a hand corker which manually pushes the corks about 1/16" below the top of the bottle. I have been leaving about 1/4" space between the wine and cork after pressing in. This morning I pushed the corks back down and finally they seem to be staying down. Is this a normal proceedure?
Lamar
Lamar