Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/06/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Plenty of good, very good and excellent Australian wines are now sealed with various screw closures. A winemaker acquaintance told me she was losing 1 in 12 bottles to cork failure even when using premium corks (the harvest cycle in Portugal, where the vast majority of the world's corks are sourced, has been accelerated to meet demand, meaning that the cork that is harvested is often of lower quality), but that the screw closures have solved that. The only downside is that the wine ages more slowly, because the top doesn't breathe. Could be a consideration if you're buying new vintages of wines that need a lot of ageing and you want to drink them sooner than later. We mostly buy to drink, not to store, so its not a problem. Marty On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> wrote: > I LOVE screw caps. ?With arthritis in my hands, the corks are almost > impossible for me to get out. ?I shop for wine now by which ones have screw > caps. ?The quality is quite good. > > Tina > > On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 9:50 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at > gmail.com>wrote: > >> For wine that we are not going to lay down, screw caps seem much more >> practical. >> Cheers >> Jayanand >> >> On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 3:21 AM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> >> wrote: >> >> > Fortunately, such barbarian habits are not widely adopted in Europe, >> except >> > for a certain class of wine which I avoid ;-) Although I recently bought >> > some decent German Riesling online and when the case arrived I was >> shocked >> > to discover screw caps. I won't be buying that one again. Incidentally, >> most >> > of the NZ and Australian wines sold here have corks. >> > >> > Cheers, >> > Nathan >> > >> > Nathan Wajsman >> > Alicante, Spain >> > http://www.frozenlight.eu >> > http://www.greatpix.eu >> > http://www.nathanfoto.com >> > PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws >> > Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog >> > >> > YNWA >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > On Jun 4, 2011, at 11:42 PM, John McMaster wrote: >> > >> > > In NZ we have mostly moved to the screw cap (claimed to be more >> hygienic) >> > > and only the more costly wines still have corks..... >> > > >> > > john >> > > >> > > -----Original Message----- >> > > >> > > For the past 13-14 years, we have been saving all the corks from wine >> > > bottles consumed at our home. Soon we will need to buy a new >> > > container: >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > _______________________________________________ >> > > Leica Users Group. >> > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Leica Users Group. >> > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> > > > -- > Tina Manley, ASMP > www.tinamanley.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >