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Why should corks be used for wine caps?

Why should corks be used for wine caps?

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Wine with metal caps is generally very cheap, and good quality wines are mostly cork. Cork is a natural product made from the bark of oak trees. It has excellent elasticity and resilience and can be completely sealed after being compressed into a bottle. However, dry stretch will decline due to reduced, which is why Wine must use across the way, to let the cork moisture to save Wine. Today, there are also artificial compression pieces of cork instead of natural corks, but in general, most expensive wines are made of natural corks. Since the cork has a lifespan of about 30 years, it is possible to preserve longer vintages.
Cork represents a traditional world style and heritage. In combination with the above points, corks become the ideal bottle stopper for wine. One thing to add is that wax was used to seal the bottle at first, which made it easy to contaminate wine, and then to cork. In addition, other types of plugs are good. Many new world countries are now using new materials. They can't carry colored glasses. They simply consider other plugs as "bargains"". If you are interested in cork, please ask further questions and be ready to answer for you.
1. First of all, cork is not made of oak, but made of the bark of Quercus variabilis. The exact name is "oak stopper". 2 chemical properties of cork oak, stability, and physical characteristics is "have special elastic" completely recovered after 24 hours, both hardness and toughness, and sound insulation, vibration isolation, good micro ventilation effect. 3, the old type of wine, in the process of storage, requires a certain amount of micro oxygen oxidation, cork happen to have this advantage. Plugs of other materials are more suitable for younger wines.

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