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Originally Posted by Hipcheck  The days of Wine Snobbery over corks is long gone IMO. |
it isn't really just opinion. Kat and i went tasting in Temecula a couple of months back, and the proprietor of the Briar Rose Winery was explaining the new and rapidly growing trend of using screw caps and synthetic corks and stuff due to more and more instances of cork taint from TCA and the fungus that produces it in the trees they use because of pesticides and stuff.
he went on to say the he isn't the biggest fan of synthetic enclosures and uses wax on some of his higher-end, more expensive stuff because the synthetic enclosures also allow for taint due to reduced oxygen.
none of this explains the issue of safety upon import/export though.
i think it's pretty safe to say the many new world wines and "drink now" type vino are perfectly acceptable from a screw cap... hell some of the finest and most expensive Sake in the world comes like a bottle of San Pellegrino
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