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Corks vs. Screw Caps: Let Us Reason Together

Posted: Apr 3, 2008 2:23pm ET

In a tasting last weekend, Plumpjack Winery poured pairs of samples from its grand experiment in screw caps. Starting in 1997, the winery bottled half of its reserve Cabernet Sauvignon under the best corks they could buy, and the other half under Stelvin screw caps, in a joint study with the University of California at Davis.

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