To Cork Wine Bottles or To
Not Cork Wine Bottles, That Is The Question?
You will usually say that screw-on caps on wine
bottles normally do show the price more than the
vintage. The use of plastic corks and screw-on caps is
becoming more common in the market today because of durability
and cost of plastic stoppers.
This topic in the
world of wine has been talked about for some
time and most wine connoisseurs would cringe
at the thought of drinking out of a bottle
of wine with a screw-on cap.
Is there really
something to this or is it just the wine connoisseurs
embracing the ways of the old?
Most wine
drinkers prefer natural cork thinking of it as a
classier way to package wine. They would
argue that the popping of a cork is part of the romance of
drinking wine.
It is a fact that a
bad cork can infect the wine
with a bad taste and smell. Cork manufacturers are aware of
the problem and have been trying to make more durable corks
for this purpose. The cork manufacturers know that there are a
lot of wine connoisseurs that feel favorable
towards traditional cork stoppers but there is no real race to
get this fixed anytime soon.
The wine
connoisseurs are right in the fact that wines bottled
using natural cork do generally age better, because the cork
allows for exchange of air within the bottle
of wine which results in slow oxidation.
Plastic
stoppers and screw-on caps can prevent this taste issue, but
they are generally not looked at in the same way from wine
connoisseurs or general wine drinkers.
Plastic stoppers can be difficult to get off the corkscrew and
even harder to get back into the unfinished wine
bottle.
Many wine
producers have decided to start using screw-on caps, which
we normally only saw on cheaper wines. We have started to see
a change in the wine industry towards the use of these kinds
of stoppers because of the taste issue plus these screw-on
stoppers allow for effective resealing.
While red
wines can benefit from cork sealing in terms of taste,
screw caps are much easier to use.
Moving into the
future screw caps seem to be growing in popularity but many
wine connoisseurs will still probably stick to the train of
thought that vintage wine should be drank
from corked bottles. |
