Sometimes I open a room-temperature bottle of red wine and put in a valved spout. On opening the valve the next day, at the same temperature, the noise I hear suggests that the air in the bottle was at a lower pressure than that outside. Why would this be?
Geoff Patton, Silver Spring, Maryland, US
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