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.

Wine bottles tell you a lot about its contents. In the past, heavy bottles usually denoted high quality wine. That was before sustainability percolated into the philosophy of making wine. Heavy glass ...

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 ...

But there are also a lot of bad things about cork bottle closures, such as cork taint and the undesirable characteristics that wine can develop through contact with air. Aluminum screw caps were ...

"I have indeed noticed how the screw caps have gotten shorter ... but shrinking the cap and thinning the plastic bottle reduced the global warming footprint of the package by about 18%.

"Leave them alone, okay?" Thus begins our manifesto, In Defense of Screw-Top Wine. Screw-top caps are tragically associated ...