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Wine bottles with a new twist Posted by Clare (5931 views) [E-Mail link] Something screwy is happening in the wine world. Increasingly, the sound of a cork being popped out of a wine bottle is being replaced by the crackle of a screw cap being undone. More than 120,000 screw-capped wine bottles from Cypress winery in San Jose, Calif., were released in May of this year. Bonny Doon Vineyard in Santa Cruz, Calif., which exhorts visitors to its Web site to "save trees, spurn cork," hopes to have 98 percent of its table wines sealed by screw caps by the end of this year. While most wines with screw caps are popularly priced, some expensive wines have screw caps. Plumpjack Winery in California's Napa Valley shocked the wine world in 1999 when it bottled half of its 1997 Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon in screw caps and sold that wine for $145 — $10 more than the other half sealed with corks. By Sam Gugino Special to MSN   Posted by Pile on 2005-08-18 21:36:26 Actually, many think this is a good idea. Corks cause TCA which can make wine taste really bad.   Comments   Name: (change name for anonymous posting) Title: Comments:     1 Article displayed.

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