When we open a bottle of wine, we will first observe the wine label, touch the groove and the like, but do you notice the bottle has a seemingly prominent but often overlooked role?In fact, this low-key little role is often said that the bottle capsule (bottle seal), in addition to oak plug outside the bottle is also an important part of a bottle of wine.What is the effect of this wine capsule?

1.Protect the cork

At the earliest time, the wine must be stored in the cellar after bottling.The dark and humid environment of the cellar is particularly well stocked and cooked into wines, but it also provides an ideal living environment for some small animals and insects.When these small animals or insects like to eat woody materials, the wine cork with the cork into their belly food, but this way, the wine in the bottle will suffer.The wine maker puts a cap on the mouth to prevent rodents from eating corks, and avoiding worms like worms.

When the capsule is made of lead, and later people realize that lead is toxic, residual in the mouth of the lead when pouring wine into the wine, and thus endanger human health.In 1996, the European Union and the United States at the same time legislation, prohibit the use of lead capsule.The capsules are then made of tin, aluminum or polyethylene.Although people now realize that the peck insects have been useless, but did not abandon the cap.

2.Avoid fake wine

Spain Rioja high-end wine in order to resist the fake wine, to protect their own reputation, the use of wire mesh wrapped bottle, so that once the wire cut down will be broken, and thus can not be loaded back and forth.The capsule tin cap also has a similar effect.If some people buy a bottle of tin hat without high-end wines, remove the cork, drink the wine inside, you can then re-filling with fake wine.The use of tin capsule can be in the past that technology is not developed enough to suppress the fake wine rampant.

3.Make the bottle look nice

A good packaging, in addition to ensure that the quality of wine is not damaged, but also to make the whole wine looks beautiful and generous, it is also more conducive to sales.In addition, some of the wine with a cork seal bottle if the exposed wine plug is not a bit like a little clothes do not wear it?And the bare bottle looks very strange.Therefore, taking into account the overall shape of the wine and the beauty of the beauty of the heart, of course, the need to dress up the bottle.

The capsule seems to be dispensable today, and some wineries even try to no longer use it, perhaps to make the bottle look better, perhaps out of environmental protection, to reduce the garbage.But the winery is only a very small number, so the market most of the bottles have a wine capsule.Factory usually use wine capsule machine to achieve the desired results.