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Perhaps if you're a wine connoisseur it's important to have a traditional cork top (even then I don't know if other than for the sake of custom it makes much of a difference), but for cheap or medium priced vino (the sort I generally buy) I infinitely prefer the convenience of a screw top. When I was in the UK I often bought Aussie wine. Most of it was screw top. No more corking, having to force the cork back into the bottle. Wish more producers would follow suit.
Doesn't have anything to do with freshness. Home brew stores will sell you a good cap top though that are a better seal than the screw tops and/or corks. I prefer to use those instead.
Perhaps if you're a wine connoisseur it's important to have a traditional cork top (even then I don't know if other than for the sake of custom it makes much of a difference), but for cheap or medium priced vino (the sort I generally buy) I infinitely prefer the convenience of a screw top. When I was in the UK I often bought Aussie wine. Most of it was screw top. No more corking, having to force the cork back into the bottle. Wish more producers would follow suit.
In the US....honestly there isn't much you can tell about the quality of affordable vintages based just on a cork, screw-top or even box or tetra pack.
I've had horrible wines and very good wines with all styles of packaging....I buy what I like (and often what's on sale within that group....lol) and really don't think about cork/screw-top or box.
2013 Grand Champion at Pacific Rim was a 2012 McPherson Albariño. $14 and a screw cap. Unless the wine needs to age for 10 years before it's even drinkable (and what's the point with that?) screw caps are just fine, and as a bonus, as a winemaker friend of mine who uses screw caps says, they're cheaper and much less prone to "corking" or rotted stoppers.
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