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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A: It is 100 per cent safe to store screw-capped bottles upright. The wadding under the aluminium cap – that little disc that sits ...

It's not your imagination: Beverage containers for milk, soda and water have gotten harder to open in recent years because their plastic screw top caps have been shortened to save plastic. It's 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 ...