You're the one that bottles with screw caps,'" he recalls, ... this month is shipping 70,000 cases of its Big House Red wine and 10,000 cases of its Big House White with screw-top "Stelvin" closures.

While still a tiny portion of wine bottle closures used in California, screw caps are... Only a matter of time before screw-cap sales explode SF Gate Logo Hearst Newspapers Logo ...

Alcan claims the Stelvin cap has half the market for wine screw caps in the U.S. Unlike New Zealand and Australia, where a majority of wine is capped, less than 10 percent of U.S. wine is capped ...

Those screw caps have evolved with technology. Most winemakers use the Stelvin screw-caps which are sometimes more expensive than corks to obtain and affix as a closure to the bottle.

Boisset said the decision to test the Stelvin was sparked by a tasting of a 1966 Mercurey that was closed by screw cap, a decades-old experiment that indicates those whispers have been bouncing around ...

Q: Should a mid-quality wine with a screw-top be stored on its side? A: The use of screw-caps (the most common is the Stelvin closure) as an alternative to traditional cork has become more and ...

The new machine, which arrived last week, can produce 20 million to 25 million Stelvin Plus caps annually, effectively expanding total North Coast production capacity to 50 million, he said.

Screw caps, practically speaking, seem to offer the perfect wine closure: no taint, no oxidation, no special tool to open, no problems. Today, Stelvin screw caps are finding their way into more ...

DeLoach Vineyards, part of the Jean-Claude Boisset portfolio, has put its most expensive wine, the 2005 Sonoma Stage Vineyard Pinot Noir ($85), in Stelvin Lux+ screw-caps.