A: It is 100 per cent safe to store screw-capped bottles upright. The wadding under the aluminium cap – that little disc that sits inside the cap – is the seal and, unlike cork, doesn’t need to be wet ...

Q: I recently returned from a trip to Western Australia, visiting local wineries scattered throughout the region. Every bottle I brought home has a screw top, even the high-end bottles. For storage, ...

There's no advantage to storing them horizontally - as you should do with bottles sealed under cork. I would recommend storing them vertically, for a couple of reasons. Many fine wines designed for ...

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 ...

Can you really judge a bottle of wine based on the closure used to seal it? You’re not supposed to, but a lot of us do, especially in the United States. A study done by the Cork Quality Council found ...

It was a small news story; the end of a decade-long experiment into the screw-cap closure for André Lurton Pessac Léognans whites. But it came just weeks after I had done a horizontal tasting of 2005 ...

It is a debate that has divided wine connoisseurs everywhere: cork or screw cap? The use of corks can lead to cork taint but new research has found that more than 20 per cent of screw cap wine bottles ...

Well, at least you managed to open the bottles. That’s another problem with screw-caps: sometimes they’re impossible to open at all – they just refuse to budge. This situation usually results in me ...

Metal screw caps have made significant inroads into the wine industry over the last decade or so as a convenient alternative to the often missing - or to some, difficult to operate - corkscrew. But ...