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How to Prepare Corks for Bottling Wine
If you are using a high quality, iris compression jawed floor Corker there is no need to soak or sulfite any of the Wine Corks that Midwest Supplies sells.
Simply insert them dry without any additional preparation.
If you are using a small, hand-held corker (plunger, single or double-lever types) you may need to prepare your corks by soaking them in warm water for 20 minutes.
If you have trouble getting corks to pass through your hand-held corker, you may want to try adding 1 cup Glycerin to every four liters of warm water you use for soaking.
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This ensures that the corks get enough moisture to lubricate their passage through the corker, but not so wet that the corks will crumble apart.
While some books talk about boiling and long soaking corks in a sulfite solution, we do not recommend it.
Cork is tree bark, and boiling it turns it to mush and it won’t seal your bottles. Long soaking can have the same result. If you soak the corks in sulphite the Corks can soak up the sulfite solution and transfer it to the wine.