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

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 ...

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.

The trend for buying wine sealed with screw caps is threatening to kill off one of Europe's most important habitats. The removal of cork oak forests threatens rare species such as the Iberian Lynx ...

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 ...

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 ...

For years, glass bottles have been regarded as the purer, safer alternative to plastic. In bars, restaurants, and kitchens alike, they carry an air of trust: no plastics, no leaching, no trouble. But ...

Australian behemoth Southcorp Wines is bottling its 2002 Rieslings with screw caps instead of corks, making the company the latest in a growing number of wineries to embrace the closure once relegated ...

It's a suggestion likely to fall flat with wine lovers. Doctors say champagne bottles should come with screw caps to avoid the risk of eye injuries. With pressure three times of a car tyre, corks ...