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RE: Screw tops forever!

Posted by triodesteve on September 30, 2010 at 21:25:03:
I can find you studies that show all sorts of things. reliable as in no tca, sure. Reliable as a way to age wine? Reliable when 4 pallets are stacked on top of each other on an ocean liner? (not so much). I just bottled a new brand with screwcap (it's a lower priced table wine) and I'm going to screw cap on Riesling and Rose' next year, but I'll wait and see on reds.
I buy pretty good corks, but there are no guarantees. What I get are wines that are just slightly corked...so many people won't even realize the wines are off. That's even worse than the really horrible, really off bottles that everyone would recognize right away.