Seeing a screw top on a wine bottle might make your wallet smile while your taste buds twitch with dread, but do those twist-off caps just have a bad rap?

In recent years, a growing number of wine makers are using screw caps rather than natural corks. The trend worries natural cork producers who have mounted an ad campaign targeting Northern California ...

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While browsing for wines, your instinct may be to reach for the bottles that require a corkscrew rather than those with a screw cap. But which is actually better: bottles under cork, or bottles under ...

I find little difference between wines aged with a screw cap and those under a good cork. But not all corks are good, and the incidence of cork-related oxidation and TCA taint is unacceptably high. If ...

We’ve all been there—the comical struggle with a wine bottle’s cork. Of course, it never happens when you’re alone, enjoying a glass or two in the comfort of your home. It always happens when you have ...

A: It is 100 per cent safe to store screw-capped bottles upright. The wadding under the aluminium cap – that little disc that sits inside the cap – is the seal and, unlike cork, doesn’t need to be wet ...

Screw cap wines have reached record numbers recently. Even luxury wines up to $100 are using screw caps, with the Aussies leading the way. Meanwhile the use of naturally corked bottles continues to ...