Is screw top wine

[Booldawg]

no longer considered as 'council' ? I see it more and more on averagely priced bottles.

[andrea81]

I watch a lot of cooking programmes, especially Saturday Kitchen, the wine experts on there frequently recommend screw tops. I have seen them come up in price too!

Far away from the days of 'lambrini' before my uni nights out! Ahh the memories LOL

[heathfield]

Top quality vintages produced in small quantities will probably never go for screwtop bottles. Snobbery apart, the reason would probably be that it wouldn't be economically worthwhile installing the necessary machinery.
Malcolm Gluck, previously the wine critic for the Manchester Guardian, (and whose opinion on wines I hold in high respect), said that screwtop bottles were the bees knees, as far as reducing spoilage was concerned.
I'm sure we'll see loads more of them on the shelves in future..

[winebuyer]

For most of the wine that we now drink, why would we want anything other than screw tops? Some wine is sold in the knowledge that it will not be at its best until it has laid around for years, gently breathing through its cork, and slowly maturing. But winemaking standards are now so high that winemakers are saying here is my wine, it's fab, buy it, unscrew it, drink it, enjoy it. Why do you want sone cruddy old piece of bark wedged into the top of the bottle?