Re: Newbie Questions On Corks, etc. ?

Colin wrote:
> "Jose" <teacherjh@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
>> Another technique I use is to completely fill a mini-screwcap bottle
>> (the kind you get in a sixpack of cheap wine) with the leftover, and
>> screw the cap back on.  There's no air except what the wine absorbed
>> during the pour.  This also works very well.
> 
> Thanks for sharing this; I'd never considered re-using these smaller
> bottles, I usually just toss them in recycling. I might have assumed
> those screwcaps weren't terrible good at sealing the bottle.I would
> presume there's no particular reason to store these in a particular
> orientation, upright or sideways?
> 
> Colin

The reason to store wine bottles sideways does not exist with screwcaps.  
I store them upright, filled to the brim.  I only have one of these which 
I keep reusing; it's been a over year and still seals fine.  (The other 
quarter bottles and half bottles I have are corked; I store these upright 
too because for the short amount of time they remain in the fridge, the 
cork won't dry out (so far two months has been the longest I've kept a 
split, a week is more typical).

Jose