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For and against plastic corks, and glass stoppers
David Schildknecht, OH:
Regarding the use of plastic stoppers by smaller growers for wines intended to be drunk early, this is really the only practical way for most small European estates to avoid (if they choose) natural cork. Conversion to a screwcap bottling line is very expensive and could only be amortized if the entire production were to be bottled that way, which the French consumer for one is not about to accept. And please, Jancis, don't invite in a mobile bottling firm unless the poor domaine in question cannot afford their own: the chances of doing a gentle, successful bottling are always thereby...
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