TYPES OF WINE TO BE BOTTLED

TYPES OF WINE TO BE BOTTLED

The variety of the wines is extensive, but it can be summarized in the following types:

Long preserving wines (Reserva y Gran Reserva – aged wines)

Medium preserving wines (Crianza – middle aged wines)

White wines fermented in barrel

Wines for fast consumption

Quality young wines (red, white, rosé)

Wine to be stored in up position in hypermarkets

It is essential to know each wine type characteristics and to bear even in mind his destination.

The wineries have specialists that know to mark out the features of each type of wine specifying the qualities that the stopper must have.

GENERAL RECOMMENDATIONS

The glass bottles manufacturers guarantee a good closing in the 3 first millimetres of the bottle opening therefore any stopper could serve to carry out a good closing. However, it is appropriate to aspire not only to a wine maintenance but that this maintenance is according to his characteristics and the wished longevity.

The advice is:

LONG PRESERVING WINES:

As per our market experience, more than 95% of these wines are covered with 49×24,0 to 24,5 and only a few ones are covered with 54×24,0 to 24,5. We have to consider that the marketing and image gotten with a stopper of 54 mm can be lost if we don’t control:

• The corking machine should have previous vacuum to the covering in the neck.

• The market for this wine. There are a lot of people that don’t know to open this type of cork stopper and even the corkscrews are not thought up for this dimension.

The advised qualities are EXTRA or FLOR because these qualities have a higher density and better image.

MEDIUM PRESERVING WINES AND YOUNG WINES IN BARREL

49×24 mm cork stopper

Natural, Super and 1st

44×24 mm

Natural, Flor, Extra, Súper

These qualities will guarantee a closing in bottle from 3 to 6 years.

WHITE WINES

44×24 cork stopper

Natural 1st and 2nd

There are not other options in length because these wines are generally bottled in burgundy bottle type which has a neck incompatible with a 49 mm cork stopper.

YOUNG WINES

44×24 cork stopper

Natural 2nd

44×24 Cork stopper

Special Colmated A and B

Technical Cork Stopper GLM

1+1 stopper

YOUNG WINES with fast consumption:

Aglomeratted stopper

39 x 24 Colmated stopper