Wine personality of the decade? The screwcap

As the recent online survey on the excellent Dr Vino blog has demonstrated rather well (IMHO), it’s very hard to pick one single person who deserves to win this award. So my vote goes to a thing, not a person. And that thing is the screwcap . 10 years ago cork was performing pretty badly. Cork taint was a big issue, and the Australians were also getting cross about a phenomenon called random oxidation, caused by the variable nature of oxygen transmission by poor quality corks. The only alternative to cork was the new but rather poorly performing plastic cork, and that wasn’t winning too many friends. So cork producers had little motivation to up their game, because they enjoyed what was effectively a monopoly situation. The major breakthrough came in…
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Anita_Romaniuk (Anita_Romaniuk) : RT @dawnbird: Please sign & circulate the petition on cuts & closures to group homes for disabled adults in BC: http://www.petitiononline.co.. Updated : 2010-07-31T10:05:32Z | Reply | View Tweet |
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RemacAsphalt (Dennis Roberts) : Expect closures on and below Eaton's Ferry Bridge ? Roanoke Rapids ...: Expect closures on and below Eaton's Ferry... http://bit.ly/9d5LoU.. Updated : 2010-07-31T09:54:44Z | Reply | View Tweet |
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GTCost (Constantin Gurdgiev) : @cassflower FDIC estimated cost of all banks closures in the US (inc $370bn behemoth WaMu) 2008-2014 = $60bn... Updated : 2010-07-31T09:36:46Z | Reply | View Tweet |
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