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Following up to Howard N. Lute

Some are and more will be...ork is getting pricy and with many quality
variations. A shame to lose a fine wine to the damned closure failing.
Twist top closures have a proven positive track record in keeping the
air out and the liquid in.

but there is another side (and why I try to only buy corked
bottles). The cork comes from cork oaks, the oaks drop the
acorns, which feed the pigs, which makes the ham that is Serrano.
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In article ,
Howard N. Lute wrote:

On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 10:14:14 +0000, Reid
wrote:

Following up to Jeremy Henderson

I've been in many American restaurants where there is a bottle of wine on
the table. Obviously opening and drinking it will result in a hefty bill.

are US wine bottles screw cap then?
Some are and more will be...ork is getting pricy and with many quality
variations. A shame to lose a fine wine to the damned closure failing.
Twist top closures have a proven positive track record in keeping the
air out and the liquid in.
H

well the alternative is not a screw cap but a good synthetic cork

we opened a lovely bottle of French champagne for Christmas dinner --
the cork was wet and not properly swollen i.e. we had a defective cork -
not apparent until it was extracted -- and the champagne was undrinkable
luckily we had several bottles of quite adequate California bubbly to
hand

a common occurence with natural corks unfortunately