Is wine supposed to store cork down?
I have a customer that wants a wine rack that stores the wine with the cork up so that the sediments sit at the bottom. I always assumed that it was supposed to store cork down to maintain a wet cork.
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Horizontally and the neck slightly up with the wine touching the cork if it’s a real cork and with the label up so to see any sediment when you are ready to open it.
Fortified wines can be stored standing up
Cork down is the correct way, but the customer is always right.
The settling process occurs when you select the wine.
It’s not "cork down" if you mean upside down.
Wine is typically soted on its side or at a slightly downwards angle. If you store it "cork down", you put a ton of pressure on the cork and you could potentially destroy your wine faster.
As far as your customer, I would say "I am more than happy to make this for you, but please know that it shouldn’t be used for storage of wine for longer than six months."
The wine needs to keep the cork moistened to prevent it from drying out. A dry cork means that air will enter the bottle and ruin the wine.
actually it is supposed to be stored flatly so to keep corck plyable and wet
so u were both wrong
so bu yah
Traditionally a real cork should stay wet in order to function properly. If it dries out, it cracks and breaks the seal. Your old bottles should be stored either on their side or if they’re in a box with corks down.
However most wine is bottled with synthetic corks these days and that is no longer necessary.
There are new kinds of rubber corks that you can do this with. But for a regular cork you should store the bottles on their sides.
As a general rule, wine with real corks should be stored on its side to preserve the cork; However, many shops don’t have the space necessary to store the wine properly, and therefore store/display the bottles standing up. The foam corks keep thier seal regardless, and of course, with screw caps it is not an issue.
Store wine laying on its side. It keeps the cork wet and keeps the sediment from collecting on the bottom.