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 ...

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Connoisseurs of fine Ontario wines may be shocked by what they find the next time they order their favourite high-quality Chardonnay or cabernet sauvignon. Instead of delighting in the smooth sound of ...

A decade ago, many wineries started using screw caps as closures on wine bottles. They were rebelling against a spate of poor-quality corks that ruined wine. A “corked” wine has been spoiled by a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...