cork

A Hampshire housewife takes a bag of corks to bed with her to beat cramp. A London man claims that barrel bungs are best.

So far only a few have had their corks replaced, while the majority are still immersed in water to prevent air from spoiling the booze.

Champagne corks should remain in place for the moment, though (if bankers are still drinking champagne these days).

A device for drawing corks from bottles , consisting of a pointed metal spiral attached to a handle .

Now we shall be able to mull some ale! Get the things ready, Mole, while I draw the corks.

The new corks had the feel of natural cork and were easier to remove with a cork screw, which addressed a key consumer objection.

The corks of three bottles were drawn; the champagne bubbled in the long row of glasses set upon the bar.

THE business deal from hell began to crumble even before the Champagne corks were popped.

Foreign buyers are scouring the U. S. for everything from guitar strings and wine corks to used dump trucks and newsprint.

Nomacorc now has plants on three continents, which produce 2 billion corks a year.

The most inexpensive corks start at 2 cents and go up to 1. 5 euros for the finest varieties used in the best wines.

He tugged at the thin ropes, and nearer and nearer came the circle of flat corks, and the net rose at last to the top of the water.

The horses dragged their feet from the sticky mud with a sound like popping corks and every few paces stopped, panting heavily.

Faulty corks can cause a moldy or wet cardboard aroma, while a sour milk aroma is due to another spoilage organism called lactobacillus.

Wine-bottle corks have been steadily usurped by cleaner, more convenient caps and the impact of this shift is massive, writes Lucy Siegle.

Most corks are sold pre-sanitized, but you can soak them in a sulfite solution if you cannot buy them already prepared.

New-wave corks and plastic bottles may create a whole new way of packaging wine, and pave the way for new categories like wine water.

Three months after champagne corks popped to celebrate the dawn of the year 2000, the market turned south, a recession soon following.

And for good reason perhaps no other day warrants more popping of Champagne corks than New Year's Eve.

The theory goes that dry air will dry out the corks, which would let air into the bottle and spoil the wine.

For grand wines, however, bottles with natural corks are likely to remain the packaging of choice.

Cork Supply Australia, based in Adelaide, has generously donated the special sized corks required to fit the bottles.

Champagne corks are popping as the gallery celebrates its anniversary.

Corks can react with mold and substances in the wine to produce "cork taint" which makes the wine undrinkable .

Corks are hard to get back in, so opened wine doesn't hold up well in the fridge.

Do our ears deceive us, or do we hear the sound of champagne corks popping over at hedge fund Harbinger Capital on Park Avenue?

The necks of the bottles are then frozen and the corks removed to disgorge the accumulated sediments.

Flying corks can cause retina detachment, double vision, and blindness. Happy New Year!

The final objects could be new bottles with corks or vases made by porcelain.

he drew the corks , and partook largely of the fish with the garlic and fat.

The properties of corks and the manufacturing process of cork expansion joint filler are introduced.

The corks of the bottles still retain an anchor logo, so it was thought at first that it was made by the Veuve-Clicquot estate.

Place the matching year CORKS on each bottle to return them to your inventory.

The majority of the bottles are still closed using natural corks.

Packaging - Cork mouth finish with a bore diameter of 18, 5 mm for corks and tamper evident capsules.

Seal the corks to the glass using paraffin wax if the tube is prepared more than 24 hours before use.

Better corks allowed wine to be stored longer and more safely.

Lay bottles on their side so corks are always wet.

Champagne corks were popping (away) on all sides.

Currently, we mainly produce natural corks of all types and specifications, including 1 1 corks , agglomerate corks and T-shape corks .

All lids, corks, or stoppers must fit securely.

Champagne corks pop and cameras flash as Rembrandt's Self Portrait is rehung.

A long plastic water pipe with 2 corks plugged in 2 ends, float it on water like a boat.

THE champagne corks are not yet flying, but American arms makers are surely readying them for take-off.

Screw tops have been gaining in popularity because they are cheaper than corks and protect the wine better.

We used a sheet of paper, some large corks and some string.

Notice how many are shaped like corks with longitudinal grooves below the tops. We can visualize the blocked bile ducts from such shapes.

Many women also carry mementos such as champagne corks or confetti from their wedding day or a pebble from a beach when on holiday.

Investigation and countermeasures of pollution of thermos bottle corks in surgical ward

Packaging - Finishes - Part 5: Finishes for sparkling wine bottles with plastics and cork stoppers and crown corks

Study on the Suitability of Different Plastic Corks

Corks, crown, of base metal