Are screw caps or corks better for wine? 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 ...

Does cork or screw cap actually make a difference in how your wine tastes, ages, or holds up over time? We look at the ...

About thirty percent of the wine on offer at Chicago’s Embeya—a modern pan-Asian restaurant with French accents—is screw cap. And, according to owner and wine director Attila Gyulai, it’s the younger ...

The wine world is full of outdated assumptions. In case you missed the memo, boxed wine can actually be better than bottled, and the belief that screw caps signal cheap or low-quality is similarly ...

To cork or to cap? It’s a big question for wine producers that has been rapidly fermenting among oenophiles and growers from the hallowed cellars of Bordeaux, up the slopes of sunny California and ...

Occasionally, life offers perfect symmetry. The hotter it gets, the more we try to conserve energy and the more likely we are to seek out wines whose bottles don't require fishing out the foil cutter ...

My feelings about screw caps on wine have been complicated. I know that good wine can be under a screw cap, but I also have had fear of the screw cap. Will people think I’m cheap or have bad taste in ...

At one time there was no question about how best to close a wine bottle; you simply put a cork in it. Today, winemakers have more choices. Besides natural cork, the options include synthetic stopper, ...

Like the recent cicada hatch, we have recently emerged from our COVID-19 cocoon and have cautiously reengaged with several of our friends, so we were thrilled when my wife and I received an invitation ...

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 ...