What is the stopper (soft) made of wine?
Cork was not really associated with wine bottles until the middle of the seventeenth Century. At that time, as another option, frosted glass stoppers appeared from time to time so that they could fit into different bottlenecks, which had been used for a long time. Until 1825, these glass stoppers remained the bottle stopper. Finally, the glass stopper was finally rejected, because if the cap removed, in addition to the bottle smashed almost nothing for it outside. Before the cork is used as a practical bottle cap, there is a doubt that it will find a tool that can be easily drilled into oak and can remove the cork. For the first time, a similar bottle opening device was introduced in 1681. It was described as "a steel worm used to pull cork out of a bottle."". The manual was then used 50 years ago to remove bullets and soft fillers from guns. It was called "bottle drill" at first. It was not formally called "bottle opener" until 1720.
However, corks had not become mainstream in those days. At that time, the most common used as cork Wine pot and wine jar is used wax or plaster, and the drop of oil olive Wine surface (to reduce the wine in contact with oxygen). In the middle ages, cork was clearly abandoned. When the painting described are twisting cloth or leather to plug the Wine pot or bottle, sometimes with wax to ensure tight seal.
Oak was used as a bottle stopper at the time of its birth. Fifth Century BC the Greeks sometimes with oak to stuff the Wine pot, under their leadership, the Romans began to use oak as cork, with sealing wax.
