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Originally Posted by Dottore
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.
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I'll take that bet. In this year's wine closure survey, over 80% of respondents use natural cork. If you own a bottling line you have to convert to a stelvin spinner and there are other packaging implications. Winemaking is a tradition-based business and change comes slow. The initial surge of interest (early adopters) has swung back a bit with the advent of reduction issues. There's even someone making a screwcap closure with metered/known oxygen ingress.
Will there be a lot more screwcap? Yes, absolutely. Especially in Whites. Will you be "hard-press to find a bottle of wine with a cork in it." Absolutely not.