So I corked my wine about a month ago and i noticed that there is a little bit of dry wine "residue" that had come out of the cork of some of the bottles. It was just a tiny bit and it is dry now. It wasnt enough leak out of the bottle and on to the floor, just enough to "spot" the cork a tiny bit.


Is the wine bad?

Why did it happen?

-J

Did you change brand of corks or the way you processed the corks before you bottled?

I hesitate recommending any methods of corking because I do everything I am not supposed to do according to all of the books I have read. However, I have been bottling wine for about 30 years and haven't had any problems so I refuse to change my procedures. Some of the new procedures are to sterilize corks in unheated water, cork the bottles and let them sit upright for a day or so before laying them on their sides.

I use the long #9 corks. I boil 1 1/2 quart of water in a pan, let it cool to about 100 degrees, add 1 campden tablet. Throw in about 25 corks and cover the pan and let it sit while bottle my wine. When I start corking the water is still quite warm. After I cork I put the bottles upside down in a wine case and leave them there for several days before I label the bottles and put them in my wine reefer. In 30 years I have never had a leaking problem with this procedure. EXCEPT!!!! Since I get 23 or 24 bottles of wine from my carboy I have accumulated a couple extra corks at every bottling that have been processed and never used. Being cheap I used a few of them to see if they would work. BIG MISTAKE!!! They did leak. Just a humble opinion on my bottling. wyo wino