In my experience, I've come across many German riesling bottles which have sticky, gooey foil caps and dried, sticky wine stains running down the side which normally would make me suspicious of the wine's condition. However, I've never had one that was corked or oxidized, in spite of the outward appearance. Do they just tend to overfill their bottles on the bottling line?
2007-02-04 04:27:38 · 8 answers · asked by Amuse Bouche 4 in Food & Drink ➔ Beer, Wine & Spirits
I've never been too worried about leakage as the fill levels are always excellent. Also, the sugar argument doesn't quite hold because I've never had this problem with any of my Sauternes, which have even higher levels of residual sugar.
2007-02-04 04:54:06 · update #1
I work in a supermarket and none of our German riesling bottles has ever had this happen. You might want to shop elsewhere if you feel there is something wrong with those bottles at that particular store. All our wine bottles are clean and I have never seen this. As for the reason I cannot explain, sorry.
2007-02-04 06:10:18 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not that unusual. The answers here relating to sugar content are correct, however there is a reason for this high sugar. High acid in the grape. the higher the acid, the more sugar you can put in it, the more sugar you can put in it, the higher the alcohol content. The higher the acid and alcohol content, the longer it will keep. The longer you shelf a wine, the better the chances are on seal leakage.
2007-02-09 14:32:54 · answer #2 · answered by ridge.runnr 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The problem may lie with super sweet German rieslings that are corked with real cork. The sugars in the wines could go through the cork and cause the staining and stickiness you are talking about.
2007-02-04 04:32:09 · answer #3 · answered by MaryCheneysAccessory 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It actually happens with any wine that has a higher-than-average sugar content. When the bottle is in a pressurized environment (like an airplane for transport) or if it's stored at the wrong temperature, the cork can leak the wine. This doesn't happen with red wines or chardonnays because the sugar content is much less.
2007-02-04 04:30:55 · answer #4 · answered by todmaffin 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Its because Germany has one of the most advance recycling system in the planet. So the chances are the vessel thats holding your german reisling has held other germans reisling before.
2007-02-10 02:54:11 · answer #5 · answered by babycute12002 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
German beer is verry stout stuff don;t worrie about the sticky stuff it is all good rinse it off in water
2007-02-10 03:15:43 · answer #6 · answered by ashkicker420 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i hope there not
2007-02-09 09:41:24 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
WHAT?
2007-02-04 04:30:09 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋