wine bottle corks

[suequiz]

Can anyone answer this question
'What does the length of a cork in a bottle of wine indicate?
Thanks
Sue

[SteveD]

"Length is not very important in evaluating quality of corks. There is very little difference between the effectiveness of a 1.75" cork and a 2" cork in preserving wine. Long corks are chosen over shorter corks largely because of their asthetic appeal---the loud pop when you uncork the bottle is appealing"

The above is from this site:

http://www.stpats.com/winesupp.htm

Does the length "mean" anything?

[larkin]

Need a longer screw ?
Sorry - wasn't meant to sound smutty !

[BigMac]

I was once told that as cork was quite expensive a winemaker did not bother with too long a cork if the wine was to be drunk fairly soon or was not of the best quality.

The length of the cork was, therefore, a mark of the quality of the wine.

This may, of course, be complete b*ll*cks.