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Opening bottles with impenetrable seals over the corks
John Goodwin, London: Am I just maladroit or have I missed an obvious way to deal with Cotat's charmingly traditional but still maddening habit of using wax to seal his Sancerre bottles? Either you get bits of whatever it is all over the floor or (if you drive the screwdriver straight through the seal into the cork) specks go into the wine. Of course, the wine is so delicious in a good year (not my current 2000 but I expect the '02 will be again) that maybe the extra hassle doesn't matter, but is there a good reason for the practice? me: I suppose if you are convinced that your customers’ cellars are infested with cork...
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