Better corkscrews

[DRT]

There were only 4 intact corks that survived the Deeper Underground Offline. All of the bottles were left at the venue so Girth measurements not available.

• Quninta do Noval 1966 - L:53mm
• Warre 1966 - L43mm
• Graham's 1966 - L:51mm
• Morgan 1966 - L:50mm

Derek

[DRT]

I have 10 intact corks from the F-Plan Offline. The bottles are in my garage somewhere so you will have to wait for Girth measurements

• Fonseca 1963 - L:49mm
• Fonseca 1966 - L:50mm
• Fonseca 1970 - L:51mm
• Fonseca 1975 - L:50mm
• Fonseca 1977 - L:45mm
• Fonseca 1980 - L:47mm
• Fonseca 1983 - L:47mm
• Fonseca 1985 - L:48mm
• Fonseca 1992 - L:43mm
• Fonseca 2000 - L:50mm

Derek

[DRT]

Corks from the 1985 Horizontal in Craster, Northumberland in January 2008. Girths will be posted another day:

• Dow's 1985 - L:42mm
• Fonseca 1985 - L:47mm
• Warre's 1985 - L:48mm
• Martinez 1985 - L:49mm
• Quinta do Noval 1985 - L:46mm
• Croft 1985 - L:35mm

Derek

[g-man]

Sandemann's 77 - L: 44mm d: 19mm

[DRT]

Graham's Malvedos 1996 - L:45mm, G:17mm

[John Danza]

1985 Croft

I measured in inches using a micrometer and converted it ti millimeters using a website.

Cork data:

Length: 1.952 in. / 49.6 mm
Cork diameter at top: .684 in / 17.4 mm
Cork diameter at bottom: .852 in / 21.6 mm

Bottle inside neck diameter: .666 in / 16.9 mm

I can only attribute the neck diameter being 666 to the quality of this wine, which at opening wasn't too promising.

[jdaw1]

1977 Burmester: 45mm, 18mm.

[DRT]

Dow 1970 - L51mm:G19mm

Morgan 1989 - L47mm:G18

The Morgan cork does not have the shippers name on it - simply "Vintage 1989" on a cork that definately does not look 17 years old. I wonder if ssome of these were re-corked before they were shipped out of the Croft cellar last year?

Derek

[Alex Bridgeman]

Cockburn 1912 17mm diameter, 51mm long
Vesuvio 2005 18mm diameter, 45mm long

[DRT]

Cockburn 1912 17mm diameter, 51mm long
Vesuvio 2005 18mm diameter, 45mm long

AHB,

Now that you have posted the cork dimensions perhaps now would be a good time to update the TNs and Review?

D

[Alex Bridgeman]

I am slowly catching up with all the things that I need to catch up with having been away from a decent internet connection since Wednesday last week.

Tasting notes and review - and update of the Offline Summary - will follow shortly.

Alex

[jdaw1]

Small collection of corks found whilst doing last-day house-move packing, the longest of which were 52mm to 54mm.

[jdaw1]

Time-saving announcement.

Please, if you open a bottle of port and the cork is longer than 55mm, tell me. Scores ≤55mm are no longer useful to this survey.

Please, if you open a bottle of port and the inner diameter of the neck is narrower than 18mm, tell me. Scores ≥18mm are no longer useful to this survey.