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Originally Posted by Don Plumley
The screwcap does remove some of the romance of cutting the foil and extracting the cork. But that romance is for naught if the wine is corked. While a few ultra luxury brands have put screwcaps on their bottles, given the dramatic improvement in cork quality and general high-end consumer perception, natural cork will always be the dominant closure.
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I disagree entirely. The so-called "romance of cutting the foil and extracting the cork" is a thing of then past. If it isn't yet—it soon will be.
And how painful is it to watch your average waitress massacre a cork in front of your eyes??
In Switzerland virtually all domestic wines have been screw-top for years. In America there's a bit of a stigma attached to screw-top because these used to be the really crappy fortified wines (Old Sailor etc). But that stigma will disappear quickly as more and more decent wines get rid of the cork.
I would bet that in 5 or 7 years you will be hard-pressed to find a bottle of wine with a cork in it.