Monday, May 9, 2016

Synthetic Polymer Corks


If you drink wine then I’m sure you’ve come across these plastic replacements to natural wooden corks. They look like the real thing, come in a vast array of day-glow colours, require a corkscrew to extract, and perhaps most importantly, are free of “cork taint” (TCA). However, I have reservations about them. First of all, they’re difficult to pull out, and if you don’t finish the wine, next to impossible to put back in. That however is not my biggest concern. They are made of an oil-based product and from what I know about wine, and particularly alcohol, it leaches elements out of things it comes in contact with. So would not the alcohol in wine leach chemicals out of these closures? Something to think about!

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