SC - Wine
Alderton, Philippa
phlip at morganco.net
Sun Jan 4 19:52:48 PST 1998
Corks which fly across the room are the result of de-corkers who don't know
their craft.
phlip at morganco.net
Never a horse that cain't be rode,
And never a rider that cain't be throwed.
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: At 05:44 PM 1/4/98 -0600, Bear wrote:
: >Bottles have been used since Roman times at the least. What was not
: >available, to my knowledge, were bottles capable of handling
: >champagne-like pressures.
: >
:
: Is this really an issue with bottles, or with their corks/stoppels? My
: lord and I recently took up glassblowing and I have a couple of
blown-glass
: wine bottles here of a sort much like what could have been blown in
period.
: Mine have fairly thick walls (much thicker than a modern machine-made
: glass bottle) because the temperature of the molten glass was (relatively)
: low. I'd be surprised if these couldn't handle a significant amount of
: internal pressure. Corks/stoppels that won't fly across the room are
: another matter!
:
: =Caitlin, glassworker
:
:
: --Caitlin Cheannlaidir
: caitlin at phosphor-ink.com
:
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