Do I need to use a wine rack if I only buy wine with a plastic cork?
I could be wrong here, but I thought the idea behind a wine rack was to store the wine bottles tilted so that the cork does not dry out.
But if I only buy wine that has a plastic cork (it just so happens my favorite wine uses them) do I need to still store the bottles on a tilt?
I was thinking that the benefit of the plastic corks is that they don’t dry out like real cork corks.
Please help me wine connoisseurs!
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There is still an advantage in using a rack, but only if you are storing the wine for a long time.
It allows you to regularly turn the wine during storage, to help stop the formation of sediment
PS: Ronald is being a bit unfair to Cynthia with his comment on "corking", she does state "almost eliminated"
No, the boffins are coming round to the idea of plastic bungs OR screw caps.The corking of wine with these two is almost eliminated.
you don’t need a wine rack for plastic corked bottles, only cork bottled, as you rightly said, to stop cork drying out, enjoy your wine!
Natural cork in a dry storage place will tend to dry out. That’s why you place them on the side. Plastic corks, glass stoppers, screw caps, even natural champagne corks, don’t really need this. If you keep your cellar humidity up in the 60-70% range, you also don’t need to get concerned.
By the way, corks drying out have nothing to do with the wine being "corked." Cork taint is a substance called TCA that was in the cork or wine when it was bottled and nothing you can do can make it better or worse in the way you store things. While not using cork eliminates one common source of TCA contamination, it’s possible for the wine to get corked in other ways.
Excessive oxidation and leakage are the usual problems with dry corks.
you are wrong.
plastic corks? egads, why not just pour the wine down the sink next time!