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If you're a wine drinker, you've probably noticed that screw caps are no longer considered the closure just for cheap vino. Increasingly, bottles of very good wines are unscrewed, rather than ...
While browsing for wines, your instinct may be to reach for the bottles that require a corkscrew rather than those with a screw cap. But which is actually better: bottles under cork, or bottles ...
Many fine wines designed for cellaring are now sealed with screw caps. The point is to avoid the modern scourge of cork taint, a foul-smelling defect caused by a fungus that randomly attacks cork ...
About thirty percent of the wine on offer at Chicago's Embeya—a modern pan-Asian restaurant with French accents—is screw cap. And, according to owner and wine director Attila Gyulai ...
She says they accounted for almost 45% in 2018 and that, “…screw caps make up about 32% of the global [wine bottle] closure market.” As covered by Stacy Briscoe in Wine Business Monthly ...
While screw-cap wine enclosures have been around since the 1950s, they’ve historically been associated with cheap hooch, so for a lot of people the sight of a screw-capped bottle telegraphs ...
It's possible for the chemical TCA (2,4,6-trichloroanisole) and its corky, nasty odors of musty, damp cellars and wet newspapers to affect a winery's entire cellar, ruining whole batches of wine—which ...
Screw cap wines have reached record numbers recently. Even luxury wines up to $100 are using screw caps, with the Aussies leading the way. Meanwhile the use of naturally corked bottles continues ...