At last, corks without the risk of cork taint...
After three years of intensive research for alternative methods of closure, we have decided to use "DIAM" corks of the brand Oeneo-Bouchage for our
St-Saphorin AOC Vieilles Vignes 2004 as well as our
Dézaley AOC of the same vintage .
This type of cork uses several new techniques :
- Extraction of suberine (the "noble" component of natural cork) and elimination of lignine (the "woody" component)
- Treatment of the suberine by supercritical carbon dioxide (patented process) in order to eliminate practically all the TCA which causes the bad taste known as "cork taint".
- Assembling the suberine with a binding agent to give each cork a homogeneous structure and perfect neutrality.
In other words, in fact, this type of cork has a triple advantage :
- it is neutral to the wine (that is to say, it is not able to transmit any bad taste to the wine).
- thanks to its 100% homogeneous structure, which guarantees a perfectly
normal rate of evolution in the bottle, without the variations
encountered previously, we are assured of optimum aromatic freshness in
half-bottles of our wines.
- it ensures (and this is an added bonus) that every cork is identically easy to extract, in fact less strength is needed than before (about 25 kg against 20 to 40 kg for a normal cork and 45 kg for a synthetic cork !), making cork-pulling particularly "comfortable".
The DIAM cork is the result of long years of research by the
Oeneo-Bouchage company, and has obtained numerous awards and gold medals at professional wine shows.
For the past three years we have tested this cork with great success, which has given us sufficient experience to make this choice with every confidence.
In fact, our research shows that the structure of these corks remains unchanged for much longer than 6 years, and we have yet to find a single leaking bottle (which is an added advantage).
Full details with the manufacturer's
technical specifications Oeneo-Bouchage.
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