CHAMPAGNE

[lisashea]

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Hmmmm, but you have the bottle laying on its side, right? The entire cork bottom should *always* be completely submerged. Turning it won't change that at all [img]http://www.wines.com/ubb2/smile.gif[/img] It's not like the wine is leaking down out the cork, otherwise you'd be losing Champagne! In fact, if it lays stationary, it has a nice seal formed. By spinning it around and shaking it up, you are giving
the cork more opportunity to shake a bit loose each time and lose integrity
...

The best thing when letting wines age is to just let them *sit*. In fact, with ports and red wines you never want to disturb them, because they create a layer of sediment along the lower edge of the bottle that you
definitely would not want to mix back up into the wine ...

Lisa Shea, wine guide
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