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Wine also benefits from "breathing," which is facilitated by cork's cell structure.
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"We have some fermenting going on here and pretty soon the cork's going to pop," said Patrick Barry, an editor and writer at NewCommunities. org.
Sally Duros: State of Pay: A Chicago News-Blog Suspense Story 2009
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Just pour enough through the coffee filter to catch the cork's fragments.
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"To cork's critics, the failure rate is both outrageous and unacceptable," writes George Taber in "To Cork or Not to Cork."
How to End a Bottleneck Jonathan Karl 2007
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There's no need for increased bat speed cork's primary benefit in BP.
Instant Zillgitt 2003
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Natural cork's disappearance hurts endangered species
Boing Boing: December 29, 2002 - January 4, 2003 Archives 2002
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You must have firm corks, boiled in wort, or grounds of beer; fill within an inch of the cork's reach, and beat it in with a mallet; then, with a small brass wire, bind the neck of the bottle, bring up the ends, and twist them over with a pair of pincers.
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The average buyer of champagne would not understand the cork's story.
The Onlooker, Volume 1, Part 2 Various 1885
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Them's nothing but the accidents of the cork that you're looking at and handling; but, as I tould you afore, the real cork's dhrew and is here prisint on the end ov this nate little insthrument, and it was the noise
Stories of Comedy Rossiter Johnson 1885
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"Accident ought to be passable to sperit," says the Pope, "and that makes me suspect that the reality ov the cork's in it afther all."
Stories of Comedy Rossiter Johnson 1885
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