What is the difference between corks and synthetics closures? – Episode #25
Mar 29
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Today’s question is from Steve from Larchmont (NY) who asks “What is the difference between corks and synthetics closures?”.
Video sum up: What is the difference between corks and synthetics closures?
There are no a lot of differences between cork and synthetic closures.
Closures are used to prevent air from entering the bottle and protect the wine inside.
Cork has been used for millenia: it has the ability to preserve wine but also to change the wine (with the TCA)
Synthetic closure are cheaper and on short term could do a perfectly good job. We don’t know currently if synthetic closures are as good as cork because synthetic closures are very recent.
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