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Do you think Conundrum would be a more desirable wine if the bottle was corked instead of a screw top?
My personal feeling is a wine should bottled useing a cork and not a screw top.
I feel a cork allows the wine to better mature, what do you think?
Would you be willing to pay an extra dollar or two for a corked bottle?
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I feel a cork allows the wine to better mature, what do you think?
Would you be willing to pay an extra dollar or two for a corked bottle?
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October 08, 2009 07:46 PM
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Screw tops are better. This has become even more true in recent years as screw tops have become better and corks have become worse. Why have corks become worse? Because the world wide demand for bottles of wine (which includes a reduction in bulk wine sales) has resulted in a shortage of high quality corks. At the same time, modern manufacturing causes more tainting in the corks that are used. On top of that, consumers often mistreat corked wine bottles by storing them incorrectly. Meanwhile the screw top companies have continued to refine their production and linings.
The only remaining question is whether screw tops are appropriate for wine aged for many years in wine cellars. This applies to very few wines; but, if you do have a wine cellar and expect to age a wine more than 10 years or so the evidence is not in. Shorter term studies, by Hogue for instance, show that aging in screwtop bottles works as well or better.
For the great majority of wine, Conundrum included, screw tops are the best choice.
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The only remaining question is whether screw tops are appropriate for wine aged for many years in wine cellars. This applies to very few wines; but, if you do have a wine cellar and expect to age a wine more than 10 years or so the evidence is not in. Shorter term studies, by Hogue for instance, show that aging in screwtop bottles works as well or better.
For the great majority of wine, Conundrum included, screw tops are the best choice.
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October 08, 2009 12:55 AM
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Most wines are heading towards screw tops these days. Even expensive bottles. There's far less problems with the wine 'corking' and people running around the kitchen to find where they put the corkscrew often to find they either didn't have one or it's lost.
I prefer to buy screw top wine bottles for ease of use. It also means you can put the lid back on without having to try and find/buy a replacement stopper.
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I prefer to buy screw top wine bottles for ease of use. It also means you can put the lid back on without having to try and find/buy a replacement stopper.
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1-20% of wine sold with corks is tainted because of a problem with the cork. Screw tops eliminate that problem, and as long as I enjoy the wine, I'm happy with a screw top.
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In the dim and distant past, when Dinosaurs ruled the earth and the Top Hat was considered the height of fashion nobody in there right mind would ever consider drinking wine with a screw top. The only wines that did have screw tops were cheap plonks that would also substitute as a paint stripper, cleaning fluid and general disinfectant.
However the world has moved on. Cork being a natural product is inherently unpredictable. Many good bottles of wine have been ruined by defects in the cork. A screw top does give the guarantee that the wine will get to you in a good condition.
Cork is actually a resource thats getting harder to find. There is a large environmental downside in stripping this out of forests, not to mention its carbon footprint.
Good wines now come with a screwtop. In a few years I probably won't need a corkscrew anymore. This is probably a good thing all round and I commend any wine maker that embraces this benefit for its customers.
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However the world has moved on. Cork being a natural product is inherently unpredictable. Many good bottles of wine have been ruined by defects in the cork. A screw top does give the guarantee that the wine will get to you in a good condition.
Cork is actually a resource thats getting harder to find. There is a large environmental downside in stripping this out of forests, not to mention its carbon footprint.
Good wines now come with a screwtop. In a few years I probably won't need a corkscrew anymore. This is probably a good thing all round and I commend any wine maker that embraces this benefit for its customers.
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October 11, 2009 03:29 PM
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Cork production is actually environmentally friendly.The cork it a product of a specific type of tree grown mostly in Spain and Portugal. The cork is havested from the trees every 9 years, the tree lives for 200. The presence of something economically valuable in the trees has caused the local people to avoid destroying the cork forests, and that has prevented erosion and provides habitat for a number of endangered species.
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