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	Screwcap -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A screwcap is a type of (Termination of operations) closure that is gaining increasing support as an alternative to (A port city in southern Ireland) cork for sealing wine bottles.
		A screwcap is a (Any of several chemical elements that are usually shiny solids that conduct heat or electricity and can be formed into sheets etc.) metal cap that screws onto threads on the neck of a (Glass or plastic vessel; cylindrical with a narrow neck; no handle) bottle.
		Screwcaps have a much lower failure rate than cork, and in theory will allow a wine to reach the customer in perfect condition, with a minimum of (Click link for more info and facts about bottle variation) bottle variation.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sc/screwcap.htm (390 words)

	Screwcap - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A screwcap is a type of closure that is gaining increasing support as an alternative to cork for sealing wine bottles.
		A screwcap is a metal cap that screws onto threads on the neck of a bottle.
		Screwcaps have a much lower failure rate than cork, and in theory will allow a wine to reach the customer in perfect condition, with a minimum of bottle variation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Screwcap (365 words)

	Skruelåg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Screwcap wine seals do not introduce the risk of extraneous "taint2 to the wine: instead, they allow the wine to mature and develop without outside help.
		Screwcap closures have been protecting premium food and beverages for over 30 years, but anxiety about "marketing issues" has led to restricted supply of premium quality wines under screwcap.
		The screwcap is formed from an aluminium alloy outer, with a liner of expanded polyethylene covered with a tin foil and a PVDC film.
	www.vinavisen.dk /vinavisen/website.nsf/Pages/Skruelaag (692 words)

	Popping corks: A sound bound for oblivion?
		Screwcaps received a great deal of publicity when, in 1997, Gordon Getty, the multimillionaire, announced that he would use screwtops for the $150-a-bottle wines produced at his Plumpjack Winery in the Napa Valley.
		Other wineries using screwcaps for at least part of their production are, among others, Fetzer, which uses them on wines exported to Europe; Sonoma-Cutrer, on some bottles of top-of-the-line chardonnay; and Murphy-Goode, an Alexander Valley winery, on its entire new line of wines called Tin Roof.
		Screwcaps have become popular in the Clare Valley of Australia and in New Zealand, where Kim Crawford, of Kim Crawford Wines in Marlborough, is an outspoken advocate.
	www.azcentral.com /home/wine/articles/0515winecorks15.html (1455 words)

	Wine of the Week - International Screwcap Symposium - November 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The symposium was conceived and organized by the New Zealand Screwcap Initiative, started in 2001 by a group of Marlborough wineries frustrated by rising levels of contamination of their wines from TCA in natural corks.
		Mr Grosset said that the ability of the screwcap to retain the character of the wine as it was at time of bottling meant that the winemaker had to ensure highest quality in the wine prior to bottling.
		The closures tested were one screwcap, two types of natural cork, two types of “technical cork”, three types of extruded and six types of moulded synthetic stoppers.
	www.wineoftheweek.com /guest/0411screwcaps.html (1219 words)

	The New Zealand Screwcap Initiative
		Screwcaps as an alternative to cork for bottling wine were born in 1959, when French company La Bouchage Mecanique introduced the Stelcap-vin as an alternative to cork.
		Screwcaps are also known as ROTEs (for roll-on tamper evident) or by the trademark of Stelvin (a popular brand of cap made by Pechiney, a French company).
		From what I have seen so far, however, the screwcap is still my choice as being technically the best.” With regards to potential problems with the tightness of the seal provided by screwcaps, and their suitability for ageing red wines, Brajkovich had this to say.
	www.wineanorak.com /new_zealand_screwcap_initiative.htm (2883 words)

	Wine Access (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Screwcaps are easy to open, easy to use, keep wine fresh, and allow you to cellar bottles without fear for decades to come.
		The problem is that twist-off screwcaps, readily accepted on expensive extra virgin olive oil and upscale bottled water in our finest restaurants, are considered a marketing liability by class-conscious wineries and, perhaps more important, a large percentage of the trade who believe the romance of the cork is what really sells wine.
		Wineries using the screwcap or synthetic closures for VQA wines include: Lotusland, Blasted Church and Tinhorn Creek in the Okanagan Valley (Tinhorn Creek released it’s first-ever reserve merlot in two-packs – one bottle under Stelvin and one under screw cap).
	www.wineaccess.ca /archiveoct04.htm (2780 words)

	Screwcap Initiative - Why Screwcap? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Screwcap wine seals eliminate the threat of 'cork taint' and premature oxidation.
		This is why many highly respected wineries around the world store their own precious 'library stock' wines under screwcap wine seals - to ensure that the wines are not at risk of oxidation or taint.
		Screwcap closures have been protecting premium beverages for over 30 years, but anxiety about 'marketing issues' has, until now, resulted in very few premium quality wines appearing under screwcap.
	www.screwcap.co.nz /grids/index_green.asp?id=220&area=4 (763 words)

	Jackson Estate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		After some research the concept of the screwcap wine seal was raised for closer evaluation and technical overview.
		The screwcap wine seal was not an original concept, but considerable progress had been made since the days of Granny’s AGEE preserving jars.
		Technical evidence in support of the screwcap closure was presented in an Australian Wine Research Institute (AWRI) Report, which published the results of trials carried out on a range of bottle closures.
	www.jacksonestate.co.nz /index.php/pi_pageid/60 (334 words)

	Wine of the Week - History and Revival of Screwcaps (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The screwcap was introduced by White Horse Distillers in 1926, an innovation which doubled the sales of the brand in six months, and this was further developed by White & Mackay, who, in 1960, introduced a plastic screwcap which doubled as a measure or small cup.
		The long skirted Stelvin screwcap was developed specifically for the wine bottle and was developed from the Stelcap design which was used on wine bottles but not specifically designed for wine bottles.
		As the use of screwcaps spreads throughout the world, Sandra Oldfield, the winemaker at Tinhorn Creek Vineyards in Oliver, British Columbia, writes to advise that Tinhorn Creek is the first in Canadian Winery to use Stelvin.
	www.wineoftheweek.com /screwcaps/history.html (3464 words)

	Screwcap Initiative - Critical & Media Comment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Wakefield was experimenting with screwcaps way back in the early 70s and was also the largest single participant in a special project undertaken by 14 Clare Valley wineries during the 2000 vintage in a mission to resurrect the screwcap use for premium Rieslings.
		‘Screwcap is our future’, Boisset head winemaker Grégory Patriat said, adding that he had become a strong supporter of screwcaps after tasting a 1976 Mercurey that was sealed under screwcap and had aged very well.
		Once Villa Maria started producing wine with screwcap closures in 2001, their superiority was quickly established and heavy investment in state of the art equipment has followed.
	www.screwcap.co.nz /misc/get_top_page.asp?area=8 (6541 words)

	Screwcap closures for top Bordeaux and Burgundy - Wine International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Margaux’ general director, Paul Pontallier, who said he was ‘ready to use anything if it was shown to work’ has announced screwcap trials of 24 bottles of a Second label red — thought to be the first research of its kind by a first growth since Haut Brion bottled a few 1969s with primitive screwcaps.
		In 1996, Stephen Henschke did a test screwcap bottling which compared well enough with cork-sealed wines for him now to be offering Hill of Grace with this closure.
		Villa Maria is refusing all orders for cork, and Bonny Doon in the US has increased the number of screwcapped bottles from 80,000 to 400,000 — a figure dwarfed by the volume of such wines to be produced by E&J Gallo (under its Turning Leaf label) and its Californian neighbours Corbett Canyon and RH Phillips.
	www.wineint.com /story.asp?sectioncode=1&storyCode=1445 (334 words)

	cuisine.co.nz - wine - to screw or not to screw
		After much consultation and research, screwcap wine seals were identified as the most promising alternative to cork, and the action of some leading Clare Valley (Australia) Riesling producers in very successfully using and marketing screwcap closures on their premium 2000 vintage wines confirmed this as the alternative system of choice.
		The seal is released by holding the top of the bottle around the capsule firmly in one hand and gently twisting the bottom of the bottle with the other.
		Screwcaps allow this to happen in a reliable, consistent manner.
	www.cuisine.co.nz /index.cfm?pageId=14538 (926 words)

	The New Zealand House of Wine > A Matter of Good Taste
		The advantages of using the screwcap as a wine seal are:
		This is why many highly respected wineries around the world store their own precious 'library stock' wines under screwcap seals - to ensure that the wines are not at risk of oxidisation or taint.
		Screwcap closures have been protecting premium beverages for over 30 years, but anxiety about 'marketing issues' has, until now, resulted in very few premium wines appearing under screwcap.
	www.nzhouseofwine.com /section.php?xSec=93 (783 words)

	Screwcaps -- Felton Road Wines -- New Zealand Wine -- Winery in Central Otago, New Zealand
		The Screwcap on a wine bottle isn't the same as those used for other food and drink: it has been specially developed for protecting fine wine over an extended aging period in the bottle.
		There have been a number of comparative tastings now, where distinguished tasting panels have compared the same wines in cork and screwcap at various points in their development, (there are library stocks of many wines in screwcaps going back more than 20 years).
		Screwcaps were preferred in 21 out of 40 cases; corks only won once.
	www.feltonroad.com /news/stelvin.asp (1812 words)

	screwcap (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Despite this, and the relatively basic nature of the screwcaps used (they contained a layer of paper and cork - 'The paper acted as a wick and the cap corroded,' revealed the manufacturer) a bottle of the trial wine apparently tasted acceptable a decade later.
		The renaissance of the screwcap came in 2000 when, led by Australian Winemaker of the Year and International Riesling Winemaker of the Year, Jeffrey Grosset, 14 Riesling producers in the Clare Valley collectively decided to bottle some or all of their wine using Stelvin.
		At the Wine International tasting, mature screwcap reds, including Penfolds and Henschkes from the 1990s fared well, but there is widespread acknowledgement that winemaking may need to be adapted if wines are not to have undesirable 'reduction' characters arousing from the behaviour of sulphor dioxide in the oxygen-free environment of a screwcap bottle.
	www.corkwatch.com /screwcap.html (2438 words)

	Wines & Vines: Getting serious about screwcaps - Brief Article
		Campbell is so enthusiastic about the potential for screwcaps that he said he was contributing his time and effort for expenses only to spread the good news.
		He added that part of his mission was to destroy the myth that "wine bottled under a screwcap doesn't age." To demonstrate that, he offered a vertical of three Eden Valley (Australia) Rieslings from 1995, 1997 and 1999.
		The report noted that wine sealed with the screwcap retained the greatest concentration of [SO.sub.2] (sulfur dioxide) and ascorbic acid and had the slowest rate of browning.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m3488/is_12_82/ai_81113370 (1509 words)

	StarForum :: View topic - JOURNAL: Screwcaps - The Beta Videotape of the Wine World?
		To paraphrase their summary of the failure; the promoters and early adopters of Screwcap seal were not effective as opinion leaders, or as role models to take the innovation to the point of it becoming a mainstream alternative to cork.
		The wineries using screwcaps learned the lessons of the past and use an innovation strategy that has seen growth well beyond original projections by focussing on the core benefits of the screwcap in addressing TCA Taint and oxidation and bottle variation.
		Is it a case now that Screwcaps are more the DVD of the world, it's a technology that has been around for a while, is obviuosly superior to the other available formats but the mainstream public are only just starting to embrace it now.
	www.winestar.com.au /forum/viewtopic.php?t=2026 (5299 words)

	The Screwcap Solution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		They may not be as aesthetically pleasing as corks to wine connoisseurs, but researchers in Australia say metal screwcaps appear to be the best way to preserve the quality of white wine.
		The industry-funded Australian Wine Research Institute has reported that metal screwcaps had outperformed corks or synthetic closures in helping white wine to retain sulfur dioxide, an important element in protecting against oxidation, according to a report from Reuters news service.
		He said the only downside to the metal screwcap was that the wine was beginning to get a "slightly rubber-like" quality after 24 months and that would have to be taken into account and dealt with by the industry.
	www.winesandvines.com /headline_07_23_01_screw.html (239 words)

	Fine Wine Writing by Jancis Robinson - Australian and New Zealand Riesling Tasting, January 2002
		The three bottles of each wine were sealed with various combinations of screwcap or cork (ie 2 bottles with screwcap, 1 with cork/2 bottles with cork, 1 with screwcap/3 bottles with screwcap).
		Brackets of three glasses representing individual screwcap or cork sealed bottles of the 18 wines were presented to each taster under blind tasting conditions.
		In the brackets of older wines, the screwcap wines were generally preferred by the tasters.
	www.jancisrobinson.com /articles/jr7871?printer_friendly=1 (2290 words)

	Jackson Free Press \| [Wine] Screwcap Renaissance
		Many winemakers are not comfortable with the chance that anywhere from 2 to 10 percent of their wines could become tainted by corks, so they have turned to the good ‘ole screwcap for help.
		With a screwcapped wine, the consumer gets an absolute guarantee that their wine will not be tainted with TCA.
		Their wine can be stored in any position (with traditional cork, wine must be stored either upside down or on its side to keep the corks from drying out and allowing air into the bottle), and there is no need for wine opening tools or wine opening tool know-how.
	www.jacksonfreepress.com /comments.php?id=5219_0_8_0_C (931 words)

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