{"id":239468,"date":"2026-06-23T02:18:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T07:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/how-oxygen-sneaks-into-a-corked-wine-bottle-long-before-the-first-pour"},"modified":"2026-06-23T02:18:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T07:18:42","slug":"how-oxygen-sneaks-into-a-corked-wine-bottle-long-before-the-first-pour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/how-oxygen-sneaks-into-a-corked-wine-bottle-long-before-the-first-pour","title":{"rendered":"How oxygen sneaks into a corked wine bottle long before the first pour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-oxygen-sneaks-into-a-corked-wine-bottle-long-before-the-first-pour3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The main reason for sealing wine bottles with a cork is to protect the liquid from oxygen. However, it is not an impermeable barrier, and a small amount of air leaks in, which is not always entirely bad news. The gas helps the wine mature and develop a more complex flavor.<\/p>\n<p>In a paper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.aed3023#tab-contributors\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal <i><i>Science Advances<\/i>,<\/i> researchers highlight several mechanisms that control how oxygen enters and behaves inside the bottle.<\/p>\n<p>Oxygen is, in fact, a crucial consideration. Too much, and the wine can oxidize and spoil, while too little can stunt its development and lead to unpleasant aromas. So winemakers have a delicate balancing act to get it right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The main reason for sealing wine bottles with a cork is to protect the liquid from oxygen. However, it is not an impermeable barrier, and a small amount of air leaks in, which is not always entirely bad news. The gas helps the wine mature and develop a more complex flavor. In a paper published [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}