Bulk aging for first time

[bchilders]

Corks being leakier than airlocks does not sound right to me. Do you have a reference for that? Tim Vandergrift says the opposite (although he also comes down on the side of bottle aging):

Thank you sour_grapes bringing this to my attention. I should have chosen my words better. I believe Tim was referring to the bung seal and not the airlock. I will concede there can be air leakage with a bung but my point was that it is not controlled the way it is with a cork, especially synthetic corks which can be designed for a specific amount of O2 exchange. I got that info directly from a commercial wine maker and a cork manufacturer.

 

[sour_grapes]

Paul,
Is there anyway you can attach that .pdf? Due to filters at work, I can't access that document.

Sure, here you go...

View attachment testing_free_s02_by_aeration_oxidation.pdf

 

[wineforfun]

Thanks Paul, appreciate it.