From a practical perspective, Schneider said all wine-drinkers should be considering screw-cap bottles, which can be easily opened as well as resealed and transported.

Traditionally, wine bottles have been sealed with a piece of bark from a tree known as Quercus suber, or Cork Oak. While screw-cap wine enclosures have been around since the 1950s, they’ve ...

Its ability to be stored standing up is one of the many advantages of a Stelvin cap-sealed wine bottle.

Most instances see me alternating between a corkscrew to cut the capsule on the neck of the bottle before extracting the cork stopper or cracking open a screw cap closure with a twist of the wrist.

Harbertson said that the screw-top is just as effective as cork at keeping air out. Why wine bottles typically use cork There are lots of reasons to use cork instead of a screw-cap.

A new generation of wine drinkers came of age with screw caps and plastic bottle stoppers, but cork producers are mounting a campaign to win their loyalty.

A Bordeaux winery has explained its decision to revert to corks by pointing to customers' view that screw caps are only fit for wine meant to be drunk young. Evidence suggests they are mistaken.