And according to screw cap enthusiasts, the science establishing the ability of screw caps to seal and perform well goes back to the 1980s. Sponsor Message So, what's the rule of thumb when it ...

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, ...

Whether you’re a casual wine drinker or you consider yourself more of a connoisseur, chances are you have your opinions about screw-cap bottles. As relative newcomers to the industry ...

Intuitively recyclable. Reasonably recyclable. For inside the tiny screw cap lies a humbling truth. We can recycle all we want. But it's an imperfect system. We drink the wine. We rinse the bottle.

But is a screw cap the perfect solution to both problems? We asked George Taber, author of To Cork Or Not To Cork: Tradition, Romance, Science and the Battle for the Wine Bottle to clarify.

Wines under screw cap tasted virtually the same, while the wines under cork fluctuated in quality and flavor. UC Davis, in partnership with PlumpJack Winery, aged 200 bottles of Sauvignon Blanc ...

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 ...

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 ...