A wine bottle's foil (or faux foil) cap is an almost-anachronism. Today, the cap usually is an unnecessary obstacle to opening the bottle. It serves little purpose other than a branding opportunity… ...

When you go to the store for a bottle of wine, you'll likely notice a metallic or plastic wrapper on top of the bottle. This covering, known as a capsule in wine parlance, was first created by ...

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 ...

That whooshing sound up in Napa is not the tail wind of a wine cork leaving a bottle; it's the sound of steam gathering behind the screw-cap movement. While still a tiny portion of wine bottle ...

A design for a high-tech closure for wine bottles that would allow the wine to breathe much like traditional bark corks won the $15,000 first prize in the annual Big Bang! Business Plan Competition at ...