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 ...

Screw caps provide accessibility and corks bring tradition. But what do each actually do to the taste of your wine?

From local bottles to screw caps, a decade of wine trends September 21, 2018 More than 6 years ago Sommelier Ryan Ibsen pours wine at Bestia restaurant in Los Angeles in 2015.

Its ability to be stored upright is one of the many advantages of the screw-cap bottle. Screw-caps have improved over the 45 or so years that they’ve been used on wine.

Not all wine experts are convinced that natural cork is the best way to seal wine. Szabo, for one, calls screw caps “slick and practical, perfect especially for young, fresh-style wines.” ...

When wine bottle screw caps first came to market, they were reserved for buck-a-chuck or other affordable wines of mixed quality, not bottles intended for seasoned drinkers to sip, let alone age ...

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 ...

I too once thought that all good wine needed to be opened via a cork, however, that is not true. Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now. 72°F. Tuesday, June 24th 2025 ... The great wine debate — ...