Carpe Wine: Putting a cork in the screw cap debate

Carpe Wine: Putting a cork in the screw cap debate

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 50% of people in the U.S. still think wines with screw caps are of a low or very low quality. Spoiler alert: they’re not. But, the case for which closure reins supreme is a debate that’s been going on since the 1960s when screw caps were introduced …