Store Your Spirits Longer With A Weekly Cork Ritual - Chowhound

To help put things into scale, a cork can usually last decades plugging up a bottle before it really starts disintegrating. Because spirits are usually around 35 to 40% ABV (alcohol by volume) at minimum, there's already some vapor hydrating the cork because of how strong the spirit is. Even so, when a cork begins degrading, the seal falters and air gets into the bottle which can cause oxidation. Oxidated alcohol…