On 22/10/05 13:46, in article
, "Jaques d'Alltrades"
wrote:

The message k
from Sacha contains these words:

I'm not usually this pre-occupied with alcohol, I promise but does anyone
know how to go about re-bottling and re-corking some old port? I'm sure
I've read/heard this can be done but have no idea where to start. Answers
by email, if preferred - this really is so OT but given the wide-ranging
interests of the members of this group, I feel sure someone will know. TIA.

curious

Why do you want to do it?

/curious

As I've said to Nick, it's been found in a cupboard here and the corks on
some bottles are looking very dodgy. In fact, two bottles of the dozen had
lost so much of the port, either through leaking or evaporation that they
had to be thrown away. As the port was a christening present to my son from
his now dead Godfather, he's quite keen not to lose any more of it. But the
clincher is that it has to be sent to Jersey somehow and in its present
state, I doubt it would all get there! Now, I may be wrong but I have the
notion that you shouldn't re-cork old bottles but should decant into new
bottles and re-cork those. If I'm wrong, I'll be very glad because it will
be much easier simply to re-cork the present bottles.
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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
(remove the weeds to email me)