In spite of formidable odds, 27 New Zealand wineries have decided to bottle most of their wines in bottles with screwtop caps. They call their group the New Zealand Screwcap Wine Seal Initiative.

Do you need a natural cork when it comes to high-end red wines that are going to be cellared for many years?-- Jim Heimann, Roseland A decade ago, your question would have made no sense. What else ...

No, this wasn’t a George Carlin routine. It was me (and my not so inner wine nerd) as I sat at a bar at one of Houston’s most swank joints, waiting to be seated for dinner. Honestly, I wasn’t ...

Hmm. I've got an alternative theory (if I may) that could explain a screwy flavour in your wines. Are you certain they were overexposed to oxygen or might they in fact have been suffering from ...

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It was a small news story; the end of a decade-long experiment into the screw-cap closure for André Lurton Pessac Léognans whites. But it came just weeks after I had done a horizontal tasting of 2005 ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A: It is 100 per cent safe to store screw-capped bottles upright. The wadding under the aluminium cap – that little disc that sits ...

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 ...