Dear Krystal, I have questions about caps, covers, etc. Should metal covers that come on glass jars or "tin roofs" on wine bottles be removed when recycling?

The first luxury wine with a metal screw cap is the Napa Valley's PlumpJack Cabernet Sauvignon, and it was a long time coming. For thousands of years, natural cork stoppers from cork trees, mostly ...

“The wine did not develop the nuanced bottle bouquet that the cork-finished wines did.” Pali Wine Co started using screw cap closures in 2005 after seeing that up to 10% of corks were infected ...

There are many different ways to open a wine bottle. While ever more wineries are opting for screw caps on their best vintages, most ...

In Depth: George Taber's Cork And Screw Cap Wine Picks. Video: Weekend Wines: Cork Vs.Screw Cap. Switching from corks to screw caps is a tough decision for a winery, in a business that had a value ...

Although wine-makers found the closure was much more effective at keeping an air-tight seal on a bottle of wine and eliminating the risk of cork spoilage, it wasn’t until 2001 that screw caps ...

Though South Africa has been growing grapes for more than three centuries, its sparkling wine production is only 50 years old ...

So in the end, going for the screw-cap style wine bottle might be the safest way to go. Unless you'll terribly miss the pop of a cork coming unstopped. Read next ...

Wine columnist Edward Deitch recommends a classy $10 white in a funky bottle. IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser.

Sommely IoT smart wine caps use Intel Quark micro-controllers, LEDs, BLE, a mobile app and cloud analytics to select the right wine for a meal. Topics Newsletters ...