2006-11-19 22:23:01 · 9 answers · asked by iloveF1 3 in Food & Drink ➔ Beer, Wine & Spirits
You have to look into the making of champagne to answer your question efeectively. French champagnes are bottle fermented. After the sediment is degorged yeast and a "top up" or dosage is added along with yeast cells. Yeast eats the sugar and a by product is CO2. After they added yeast a cork is pushed into the bottle. this cork is almost same shape as a normal wine cork. Over time the pressure of the CO2 fans out the cork. Remeber the pressure is 6.8 bars on average. Your car tyre is 2. Makes you think EH?
2006-11-20 01:24:53 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Champagne corks are about twice as big as a normal cork. Unused, they're the same shape, though.
Using a corking press
http://morewinemaking.com/product_images/1/5055.jpg the cork is compressed to the size where it fits into the neck of the champagne bottle, and pushed doen into the neck...but only about 1/2 way. When the corking press releases the compression, the top mushrooms out to its original size. Obviously, the portion inside the neck stays compressed. However, the neck isn't perfectly straight...so the part that's compressed inside the neck takes on the shape of the neck...more or less. The edge is under less total compression than the middle portion so it tends to spring back to its original width (way bigger than the neck, remember) more so than the center portion. So, after so many years sitting in the neck of the bottle, the shape upon removal is pretty much permanently pressed into the cork.
2006-11-20 07:17:06 · answer #2 · answered by Trid 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
When they go in, they are the normal shape. That's why they have to be wired in.
When you open the bottle, the gas dissolved in the wine is released. Some of this gets into the cork. Once the cork leaves the bottle, it's full of high pressure gas and the end suddenly expands. You can see this happen on a slow motion film.
2006-11-19 22:32:44 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
i hate it when the nobbely part at the top breaks off and you are left with the "stalk" still in the bottle!!
i have no idea how they get in hahahhahaha
maybe its the wonderful champagne fairies
2006-11-20 00:33:25 · answer #4 · answered by double d debbie 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
the corks are soaked first so they are soft when the cork is put in the bottle it expands
2006-11-19 23:01:04 · answer #5 · answered by Martz 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
well i gust that just put the corks on the bottle and i dint no about the originally your guise is good as my
2006-11-19 22:31:00 · answer #6 · answered by EVA J 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
lol i wouldn't have a clue!
I don't care. . . as long as the cork doesn't get stuck before i come to crack it open and drink it!
2006-11-19 22:32:29 · answer #7 · answered by red devil 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
they are normal sized when they go in then the vacum in the bottle pulls it into this shape.
2006-11-19 23:52:59 · answer #8 · answered by rach534 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
They swell up after they go in
2006-11-19 22:26:42 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋