Can you really judge a bottle of wine based on the closure used to seal it? You’re not supposed to, but a lot of us do, ...

When wine bottle screw caps first came to market, they were reserved for buck-a-chuck or other affordable wines of mixed quality, not bottles intended for seasoned drinkers to sip, let alone age.

If it has obvious dings, don’t buy the bottle. Its ability to be stored upright is one of the many advantages of the screw-cap bottle. Screw-caps have improved over the 45 or so years that they ...