Corks or stoppers - wine bottles

[Leeq]

Aright guys

I've got a gallon of hard cider brewing.

I want to bottle her in to 75cl wine bottles, purely because my friend has an abundance of them.

I'm just wondering.

I don't want to cork them so they require a corkscrew to open as I plan on drinking them within a month a bottling.

I may properly cork 2 bottles and leave for a while just to see how that turns out.

I was wondering, should I use these:

http://www.the-home-brew-shop.co.uk/acatalog/25_Red_Plastic_Top_Stoppers.html#.VMz9qWisXuI

Or will tapered corks work?

Thanks

 

[UpstateMike]

Wine bottles, or champagne bottles?

Wine bottles will not handle any carbonation. Champagne bottles will.

So if there is any chance, at all, of your cider carbonating in the bottle, go with champagne.

Perhaps a plastic champagne stopper and wire cage would be the way to go too.

 

[Leeq]

I'll be using wine bottles, and there will be no carbonation

How long will it keep (Before oxidation) with just normal cork stoppers?

(Like the stoppers in my link, not the corks)

 

[clone63]

A year or so is generally accepted as the limit for tasting corks until things may begin to go downhill, taste-wise. It may be quite a while still before any perceptible oxidation occurs. Depends a bit on storage conditions. Though the question usually isn't brought up about cider.