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When I first read about Coravin’s new screw-cap toppers, my first thought was, “Oh no, something else to clutter my wine gewgaw drawer.” Like most wine lovers, I have a kitchen drawer ...
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 ...
Corks and screw caps have similar functions: to keep wine from going bad. But choosing one or the other can be divisive. Many argue that corks are the key to excellent aging. Others say that twist ...
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 ...
A study done by the Cork Quality Council found 50% of people in the U.S. still think wines with screw caps are of a low or very low quality. Spoiler alert: they’re not. But, the case for which closure ...
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 ...
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 ...
Yes, it can, though it depends on how strictly you define the term. Contrary to almost universal belief, screw-cap wines are indeed susceptible to the sort of mouldy, off aromas typically ...