Wondering why some winemakers are making the move from cork to screw caps? While it might not be traditional, the results have been surprisingly pleasing! It might just be time for fine wine to make the switch.
Wine has been made for about 7,000 years, and it’s only been about 350 of those since bottles of uniform size have been secured with cork. The bark of a type of oak tree that is native to the Iberian Peninsula, cork was used as a topper for amphora during the Roman era, but at that time it was fashioned as a flat disc and sealed with wax or tree resin rather than forced into place mechanically.
“Inconsistent closures are singly the biggest shortcoming of the modern wine world,” Australian wine expert and journalist Tyson Steltzer, co-author of the 2005 book“When I wrote my book on screw caps I relied upon the trial wines of the 1970s to assess the propensity for red wines to age long-term under screw cap. Now I am regularly opening 20-year-old reds from my own cellar under screw cap. It’s a complete game-changer.
The Screwcap Wine Seal Initiative was established in New Zealand in 2001 to promote screw caps as an alternative method of sealing wine bottles. To say it has been staggeringly successful is an understatement.
“During the ’90’s, the percentage of wines that were cork-tainted was much higher, and Gordon did not understand why that was acceptable,” John Conover, PlumpJack Collection of Wineries’ managing partner, told“We spent so much time growing it and making it, and just to have the wine spoiled by its closure wasn’t acceptable.
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