Cognac bottles for bottling wine

[ameflorenti]

I started making fruit wines (dandelion, rubarb, berries) and will need to start thinking in bottling a few months down the road. I have access to just drank botlles of cognac from a restaurant and was wondering what you guys think about storing the wine there. The corks on those bottles have a platic top and fits nicely without dripping if put sideways. corks have the scent of cognac but that can be a plus on a dandellion wine i thought. any thoughts on this?

 

[lukebuz]

You could always add new corks too!

 

[ameflorenti]

Point! but I guess i was looking into easy, ready & working solution... the other bottles i can get are screwtops and there are forum threads on that... people seem to use them too sucesfully but there are also serious arguments again... i guess i will try with some cognac and see what happen

 

[Chef-Ryan]

you can get new corks for those bottles they are often called T-top corks. I have seen them at some homebrew supply shops

 

[Yooper]

Remember that wine is ruined by oxidation- so tasting corks or other corks won't really be good for your wine. The bottle itself would be fine, but reusing a non-airtight seal/cork would ruin the wine pretty quickly.