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 ...

To cork or to cap? It’s a big question for wine producers that has been rapidly fermenting among oenophiles and growers from the hallowed cellars of Bordeaux, up the slopes of sunny California and ...

There's no advantage to storing them horizontally - as you should do with bottles sealed under cork. I would recommend storing them vertically, for a couple of reasons. Many fine wines designed for ...

A: It is 100 per cent safe to store screw-capped bottles upright. The wadding under the aluminium cap – that little disc that sits inside the cap – is the seal and, unlike cork, doesn’t need to be wet ...

Customers who buy fine wines from the PlumpJack vineyards in the Napa Valley must abandon any qualms they have about twisting the tops off their wine bottles. PlumpJack’s 1997 Cabernet reserve sells ...

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 ...