![]() ![]() Glass ‘corks’ are a sexy short-term alternative. Any wine destined for swift drinking, or those for whom fruit preservation is paramount, is best under screwcap: the guerrilla closure of choice, since you can forget the corkscrew. How should bottles be stoppered? Bad corks (affected by a substance called TCA) murder wines. Purity and neutrality is the aim (as it is with less fashionable cement tanks). Once, winemakers used clay jars and amphorae to calm wine – and they’re doing so again. Small oak barrels will calm even the grandest, most intense wine over a year or two but if they’re made of new wood, you’’ll probably smell and taste the wood as well as the wine. To give wine a little soft roundness without the taste of wood, chose large tuns of old oak. For wines with youthful, fresh appeal, stainless steel tanks are best: maximum zip. Where you put it to do that is another key element in wine flavour. New wine is unruly and indigestible: it needs to calm down.
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