Lindemans Wine

[dummkopf]

I bought a bottle of Lindemans Shiraz Cabernet today in Asda, it was on offer at �4 well, it is sooooo good I'm off back on Monday to get another bottle, I think they're closed tomorrow. Strange thing is it's a screw top and I always thought screw tops were just plonk. Anyone else tried this ?

[DC_FC]

more companies are using the screw caps these days

[heathfield]

It's true that screw tops used to be found only on bottles of cheap plonk. But wine producers and retailers have come to realise their advantages. With corks, as many as 1 in 20 bottles in a shipment could spoil through air or bacteria entering the bottle via a faulty cork. Plastic 'corks' have been tried instead, but have sometimes been found to taint the flavour of the wine. They can also occasionally let air in. All this is far less common with screw tops.
The biggest problem is their image, especially with the more expensive wines. But they are becoming more generally accepted as an indication that the wine in the bottle is going to be OK.
Tesco, for example, are encouraging more and more of their suppliers to use screw top bottles.

[DC_FC]

there are drinkers who dont like the idea of the screw tops

[Pinotage]

Screw tops are much better for closing wine as 5% of bottles closed withcork suffer cork taint (TCA - known as 'corked').

These screwcaps are high tech ones long ones, not the sameas used on the cheap plonk of years ago. 75% of all New Zealand wine is closed withscrewcap and those wines are not cheap plonk.

You'll get a better fresher wine with screwcap -- proof is in yourreaction.

Easy to open, easyto reclose if not finished, no corkscrew needed. I love screwcaps