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From: rcd@opus.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.wines
Subject: Wine corks (again!)
Message-ID: <231@opus.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 14-Mar-84 21:49:55 EST
Article-I.D.: opus.231
Posted: Wed Mar 14 21:49:55 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 16-Mar-84 00:29:52 EST
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A while back, I posted a question as to why wine racks are designed to
point the bottles at you and tilt them slightly downward - which makes the
labels distinctly hard to read.  I've received some dozen responses telling
me what I already knew - that you want to store wine so that the cork stays
wet.  As I pointed out back when, you can tilt a typical wine bottle up
to perhaps 30 deg. toward upright and the cork still stays wet.  So I still
don't have an answer - why tilt the bottle downward?  (Please don't write
again to tell me that it keeps the cork wet!)  One reply seemed to say that
you need the cork not just wet, but completely covered - is there something
to this, and if so, why?  (Remember that if even a fraction of the cork is
covered, capillary action will draw the wine up and around the cork.)
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