Screw caps are turning up on more and better wines

A reader and his wife, who buy cases of wine through a club membership, recently told me they were dismayed that so many bottles are now topped with screw caps. They said that each case they received was evenly divided between red and white wines, and of the six whites, four usually have screw caps instead of corks.
“With our last shipment we even got one red with a screw top. Is this usual? It seems rather cheap to me,” the husband said in an email. “I miss the cork and the joy of popping open a bottle.”
I think most wine drinkers would agree that they enjoy the celebratory cork-popping ritual. But while screw caps once were associated with cheap wine, they are more frequently appearing on higher-priced bottles.
Wineries say screw caps protect their wines from “cork taint,” in which a chemical called TCA (2,4,6-trichloroanisole) creates an unpleasant odor that smells like a damp basement, moldy newspaper or a wet dog. The wine is then considered “corked” or “corky.” Depending on whose statistics you believe, cork taint ruins 1.5 percent to 8 percent of wines.
The move to protect better wines with screw caps started about 12 years ago with a group of Australian winemakers who believed the inconsistency of cork was affecting the quality of their Clare Valley rieslings. A year or so later, in 2001, producers in Marlborough, New Zealand, created the “New Zealand Screwcap Wine Seal Initiative.” The group started a scientific study that went on to show that screw caps are superior to cork for sealing wine. Today, most wines from Australia and New Zealand, including some priced at more than $100, are bottled with screw tops.
Last year, the Hogue Cellars, a major Washington State winery, announced it was converting all of its wine, including its premium Genesis and Reserve labels, to screw caps. The decision was based on five years of research comparing Saranex-lined screw caps with other types of closures. Dow Chemical’s Saranex is a layered plastic film that contains Saran resin (think food wrap).
The study found that wines aged under Saranex-lined screw caps tasted better than those topped with aluminum or tin-lined screw caps or synthetic closures. This was Hogue’s second screw cap study. The findings of its first study, released in 2004, compared natural cork, synthetic closures and screw caps, and found that wines bottled under screw caps were cleanest and best retained fruit flavors.
Still, I admit that I cringe when I’m dining at a better restaurant and the waiter ceremoniously shows me the label, then unscrews the cap. That just seems wrong.
But perhaps Harry Peterson-Nedry of Oregon’s Chehalem Wines had a point when he discussed the winery’s increasing use of screw caps. “I view this move a little like going from vinyl to CDs in music,” he wrote in a 2004 newsletter. “Even if we still have a turntable (read corkscrew) for romance and old times’ sake, we’ll seek digital purity in the long run — startlingly bright and clear, as if in the concert hall, without scratches, hiss and warping in the sun.”

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Clearwater Resort and Country Club, Clark Pampanga
Creekside Road near Centennial Expo,
Clark Freeport, Pampanga Philippines 2023
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