What to do if the red wine stopper is broken? Four tips to resolve

2023-08-16 16:55

1. Determine the severity of the problem. This is not about whether broken wine can be returned or discounted The first step is to observe the status of the stopper stuck in the bottle. If the envelope of your wine is still wrapped around the bottleneck, use the knife on the bottle opener to remove it completely. This is convenient for later operation.

2. Carefully wipe the bottle mouth with a square towel, gently remove any debris from the crack, and be careful not to continue drilling the bottle opener into the remaining half of the cork as usual. This can easily press the cork into the bottle and contaminate the liquor

3. Tilt the bottle body 45 degrees and carefully drill into the cork from the direction opposite the cork fracture. At this time, due to the force being tilted towards the bottle wall, it is not easy to push the remaining cork down. After drilling in, straighten the bottle and carefully lift the cork plug up. If you find that the broken cork is too short, don't hesitate, just drill and lure. 4. What if there is a broken cork or debris from a cork that falls into the bottle? At this point, quickly find a piece of coffee filter paper, gauze, or other filter to filter. Although not perfect, as long as the time is not long, the impact on the flavor of wine should not be too great. If you really encounter old wine, it is still recommended to use the double piece old wine bottle opener introduced by Zhiwei to directly lift the cork up. How to deal with special cork breakage problems

When ProseCCO or Asti, who have a high sugar content in sparkling wine, nervously twist the bottom of the bottle according to the opening steps of the sparkling wine, the stopper tragically remains motionless, not to mention the sigh of the lady, the silence of the entire woman. Give it another push, okay, the plug is broken. The occurrence of a broken cork in sparkling wine is very rare, but it is not absolute: with a certain amount of sugar, sparkling wine occasionally causes the cork to stick to the bottle body. If the cork is fragile and the air pressure inside the bottle is insufficient, the result is that the cork is twisted and broken

In this situation, when turning on sparkling wine again, the first thing to consider is safety issues. After all this turmoil, the bubbles have become quite irritable. It is best to use a bottle opener to first drill through the stopper and then drill out the bottle opener, allowing the air pressure to be released first

Among all the stoppers of sweet wine, aged sweet wine is the most dangerous one. Soaking in sweet wine for many years not only sticks the entire stopper to the bottleneck, making it easy to break, but also has good sealing performance and the micro oxidation environment inside the sweet wine, which can easily form negative pressure inside the bottle. Usually, as soon as you pull off the plug, you see the remaining half of the plug diving calmly

The best way to start elderly sweet wine? Let's use Potter pliers and feathers instead. If you don't plan to stir up the crowd like this, it's best to quickly drill into the cork with a bottle opener, stabilize the state, and then insert two pieces of old wine to remove the cork.


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