A: Knowing there’s rarely a simple answer when it comes to wine, I reached out to an expert at the University of California at Davis and asked your question. “Yes,” replied Andrew Waterhouse, a ...

Are screw caps or corks better for wine? Corks and screw caps have similar functions: to keep wine from going bad. But choosing one or the other can be divisive. Many argue that corks are the key to ...

About thirty percent of the wine on offer at Chicago’s Embeya—a modern pan-Asian restaurant with French accents—is screw cap. And, according to owner and wine director Attila Gyulai, it’s the younger ...

Can you really judge a bottle of wine based on the closure used to seal it? You’re not supposed to, but a lot of us do, especially in the United States. A study done by the Cork Quality Council found ...

If you're a wine drinker, you've probably noticed that screw caps are no longer considered the closure just for cheap vino. Increasingly, bottles of very good wines are unscrewed, rather than uncorked ...

At one time there was no question about how best to close a wine bottle; you simply put a cork in it. Today, winemakers have more choices. Besides natural cork, the options include synthetic stopper, ...

Whether you’re a casual wine drinker or you consider yourself more of a connoisseur, chances are you have your opinions about screw-cap bottles. As relative newcomers to the industry, there is a ...