So I bottled my mullberry wine yesterday and today I was attaching those pvc shrinky caps to make the bottles look nicer and I noticed there were bits of cork floating around in 5 out of the 18 bottles I made. I had to steam the corks which were first quality #8, 1 3/4 corks, in order to soften them up so I could actually cork the bottles, I tried without steaming and my hand corker kept failing on me.
So my question is what should I do about these 5 bottles? Should I take the corks out, fish out the bits of cork and recork? Should I throw them out? Or should I just drink them sooner rather than later?
So my question is what should I do about these 5 bottles? Should I take the corks out, fish out the bits of cork and recork? Should I throw them out? Or should I just drink them sooner rather than later?