Odd question about corking

[beestingbrew101]

Would a beer bottle capping press work to cork wine bottles? Has anyone tried this?

Thanks for your time

 

[Bensiff]

No, it wouldn't work. You have to compress the cork to get it to fit into the bottle neck. Hand corkers use a die that the cork gets forced through to temporally reduce the circumference and floor corkers use and iris.

 

[beestingbrew101]

Thank you!