Crazy Cork Tales: Two Corks are Better Than One

I have to share this. At Thanksgiving 2007, the capper of the night was a 1963 Croft vintage Port and Man, was that good! So I bought a few more bottles and 3 of us split the stash.

When my friend "L" got his home, he discovered that his cork had a twin in the bottle! His bottle came with one cork in the neck and one floating on top of the wine. I've never seen anything quite like it, and K&L Wines, where we got it, was kind enough to swap out the bottle for another with only one lonely cork in it.

Amazing to think that someone 44 years ago made this mistake, probably by doing these corks by hand and we just discovered it. If it weren't such an expensive bottle, it would have been interesting to open it up and see if the floater changed the wine. We'll never know.

Comments

[Jon]

I occaisonally find twin corks in old bottles of wines. Easy to do with a hand corker. Especially if there corking thousands of bottles per day.