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Monday, September 26, 2011
Wine Word of the Week: Bung
This week?s Wine Word of the Week is bung. Official definition from Jancis Robinson?s The Oxford Companion to Wine: A bung, made of glass, plastic, rubber, earthenware, silicone, or wood, is a barrel?s stopper, analogous to the cork of a bottle. It is inserted in a bung-hole. ?. Since oxygen tends to enter a barrel [...]
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