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>For many years I have recycled corks for wines I plan to drink within the
next
>month or so. Today, I heard that a commercial winery was doing that also.
Was
>wondering if any others out there were using this practice.
>I have never had a problem with doing this.
My initial reaction to this is "oh, my ... he's setting himself up to
leakage, spoilage, broken corks, etc. No, wait a minute, does he mean using
any corks that were soaked, sanitized for the last batch but not used and
using them again for the next batch?
Probably not but I do that all the time and have not had any trouble.
This is to be distiguished from corks that have been used in a bottle before
& had a corkscrew in them before ... those I would never use again.
Don
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