Wine
Bottles
The first thing you need
to do is to make sure you've got the right kind of bottles. A standard
wine bottle has a neck opening 18.5 mm in diameter. This will accommodate
a standard cork. There are bottles with different neck sizes on the market,
and you may encounter some as used bottles. In particular, the flagon shaped
bottles from Portugal (Mateus) have a much smaller neck opening, and screw-top
bottles have a very large neck opening. Also, with screw-top bottles, the
thinness of the glass in the neck area makes them unsuitable for corking. |
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