SCREW CAP
New alternative to cork (or synthetic cork) used as closure for wine.
SHALLOW
A weak, feeble, watery or diluted wine lacking concentration is said to be shallow.
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Keep those screw caps! Sure, you're going to cork the new wine, but after opening a bottle, screwing a cap back on is often cleaner and easier than pushing a cork back in. Screw caps are better at keeping wine fresh than corks.
These screw caps are not new and have been around for several decades, but they have never made significant headway against cork.
Notable wine producers using screw caps
Bonny Doon Vineyards - Santa Cruz, California
Corbett Canyon Vineyards - San Luis Obispo, California
PlumpJack Winery - Napa Valley, California
Kim Crawford Wines - Marlborough, New Zealand ...
Historically, natural cork has been the most common closure, however, in Australia aluminium screw caps (Stelvin caps) have become very popular. Zork an Australian invention is a resealable closure which "pops" on opening.
Jacobs Creek 2004 Reserve Riesling (Screw Cap)- Australia
Columbia Winery 2005 Cellarmaster's Riesling - Washington State
Dom. Schlumberger 2002 Riesling Les Princes Abba - Alsace, France ...
"Stelvin Closure": The most widely used brand of screw cap.
"Table Wine": General terminology for wine that is not fortified, sparkling, ...
Since 2004, we have bottled every one of our wines under screw caps to ensure they reach our customers fresh and unspoilt by cork taint. Wakefield were the first major Australian wine company to commit to 100% of their production under screwcap.
Reduction. Word often used in the heated debate between cork and screw-cap camps, in which some argue that this complex reaction causes off smells (at least briefly) in wines closed with screw caps.
 See also: Wine, Bottle, White, Cork, Quality
  
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