While browsing for wines, your instinct may be to reach for the bottles that require a corkscrew rather than those with a screw cap. But which ... chemical called "2,4,6-trichloroanisole" that's ...

Contrary to almost universal belief, screw ... to screw caps. But there are other, similarly mouldy contaminants closely related to TCA that have been found in wine. One of them is 2,4,6 ...

If you're a wine drinker, you've probably noticed that screw caps are no longer considered the closure just for cheap vino. Increasingly, bottles of very good wines are unscrewed, rather than ...

Screw cap wines have reached record numbers recently. Even luxury wines up to $100 are using screw caps, with the Aussies leading the way. Meanwhile the use of naturally corked bottles continues ...

A: Yes, unfortunately. Most wine lovers know 2,4,6-trichloroanisole, the compound commonly called TCA, for the musty off-odors that it produces in bottles whose corks it has infected. But cork is just ...

It was a small news story; the end of a decade-long experiment into the screw-cap closure for André Lurton Pessac Léognans whites. But it came just weeks after I had done a horizontal tasting of ...