It seals prized bottles of single-malt Scotch and acclaimed Tuscan extra virgin olive oils. But in the wine industry, a screw cap has long evoked Skid Row and the kind of product that delivers more ...

More and more wines are featuring cork alternatives. Screw-cap wines have been around for some time, but only recently have many high-end wines featured this cork alternative. Now, wine lovers are ...

Screw caps provide accessibility and corks bring tradition. But what do each actually do to the taste of your wine? Food & Wine / Getty Images Corks and screw caps have similar functions: to keep wine ...

A few years back we were commiserating with a winemaker about the heartbreak of aging an expensive bottle for 10 years only to discover it ruined by a tainted cork. He sympathized and sighed, “It’s ...

So many central Pennsylvania wine consumers know Kirt Heintzelman, the effervescent retail wine specialist at the Fine Wine & Good Spirits Store in Lemoyne, at the West Shore Plaza. The address is ...

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The year 2009 struck a nadir point for the cork industry. Sales of wine corks had been declining since 2000, replaced by alternative closures that included aluminum screw caps, plastics and glass. The ...

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 excellent aging. Others say that twist-top ...