I had this terrific bottle of Desjourneys Mâcon-Fuissé bois de la croix last night (after gardening - hence the grubby thumbnail). I’m curious about its aging potential. This cork isn’t DIAM, right? It’s quite waxy and dense - I’m curious if anyone knows what it is, and if it speaks well of laying my last bottles down for a while.
Bumping this for Monday eyes.
I think that cork is fine for laying down for a bit (or longer)…though with the obvious caveat that you might have a nice, dense cork in one bottle and one that loses its seal easily in another (yay, tree bark). But if you have faith that the wine will go for a while, I don’t think the cork will hold it back.
Corkandlogo.com? Of course that exists! I now have another way to annoy my wife with geeky facts!
The website for the cork maker is really detailed.Very cool. https://www.masilva.pt/en/homepage/
Am I missing something? That photo looks like a natural cork?
I’ve just had a great email exchange with the Vice President of Operations of M.A. Silva, manufacturer of all kinds of cork stoppers, about this specific cork and its properties. I will sleep easy about premox.
Glen, the supplier of that cork is not MA Silva it is actually a Swiss company called Chaillot
www.chaillot.ch
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