Champagne corkers

[Tom Freeman]

Hi,

Just looking for a bit of advice. I like to make a sparkling cider and have always used small bottles with crown caps which works well. The cider is perfectly clear and has a lovely fizz when I open them.

However I thought it might be more of an event if I were to bottle in champagne style bottles complete with cork and wire mesh. So it's more of a sparkling wine substitute. Does that sound possible? I assume the Cork could handle the pressure fine. But how do I put the corks in? I haven't been able to find any cost effective manual champagne corkers for sale? So looking for any info.

Thanks,

Tom

[Claude Jolicoeur]

See this page from my web site:

http://www.cjoliprsf.ca/bouteilbouchon.htm

In North America, the most common corker is the Ferrari, see for example:

https://morewinemaking.com/products/ferrari-italian-champagne-floor-corker-1.html

[Terry Chalk]

I have successfully used plastic champagne stoppers and wire cages for rhubarb and elderflower "champagne". Sourced by searching on Google and local homebrew stores they are certainly available here in Oz and I assume elsewhere in the world. They are cheap, disposable and are good at holding fizz for a couple of years. They look like mushroom corks but are usually white plastic and pop just like real corks with ribs around the stem to seal inside the bottle and just push in by hand. You sometimes find them used on el-cheapo sparkling wines.

Cheers.

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[Christian Stolte]

This https://www.grecostore.it/it/tappatrice-a-colonna-tappi-sughero-champagne/ works well for me. Paint is not great, but the corking mechanism is solid.

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[dick kirk]

Tom, I use 375 ml champagne bottles with plastic corks, which I can muscle in with a wooden "plunger", then wire-cage them.. Small bottles suit us, since I seldom drink a big bottle at one sitting. I like sparkling cider, and have lost some with crown caps.

Dick

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