Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site opus.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!ut-sally!opus!rcd 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 Organization: NBI, Boulder Lines: 14 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.) -- Cerebus for Dictator! {hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd