Comments on: Winemaking Corkers – WMA013 https://winemakersacademy.com/winemaking-corkers/ Your Winemaking Educational Source Mon, 25 Jun 2018 06:34:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 By: Matt Williams https://winemakersacademy.com/winemaking-corkers/#comment-352 Thu, 05 Jun 2014 23:01:00 +0000 http://winemakersacademy.org/?p=2204#comment-352 In reply to Gary Beaumont.

Thanks Gary! That’s an interesting difference between the standard floor corker and the Italian models. It explains the difference in cost. When I do get a floor corker I think I’ll go ahead and spring for the Italian model.

]]> By: Gary Beaumont https://winemakersacademy.com/winemaking-corkers/#comment-351 Thu, 05 Jun 2014 17:15:00 +0000 http://winemakersacademy.org/?p=2204#comment-351 Good podcast Matt, floor corker is one of the best pieces of kit I have bought. the first one I bought was a Portuguese floor corker, these have hard plastic jaws, mine got damaged, unsure of how but bad enough to put a cut all the way down the cork, I managed to repair it sort of to cork the batch I had bottled (note to self check your corker first 🙂 ) I have just bought a replacement and went for the Italian corker as they have brass jaws and therefore should last so much longer. I would say go get one and you won`t look back.

Gary

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