Ned Goodwin, Tokyo:   Given the news about ROSA`s commerciability, can you kindly provide an insight into how much these and other technical corks such as DIAM, will cost or...

Geoffrey Lai, Hong Kong:   Somewhat related to an old thread on which country has the worst cork-related problems : I was recently on a trip to Spain for two weeks during...

Michael Alberty, Corkscrew Emporium, Urbana, IL:   This past weekend I had an opportunity to try out the Saran wrap cure for a corked bottle of Herdade do...

The cork industry is thrilled to be able to report that 'leading Australian winery' Rusden ' has announced it is giving up on screwcap closures after five years as a result of persistent quality...

As you might imagine, my email Inbox has to be extremely capacious and robust (not least to accommodate invective associated with the vexed question of screwcaps ). A couple of recent emails...

The world's wine producers spend a lot of time asking themselves and each other how to persuade more people to drink wine. And yet they continue to sell the vast majority of their production in...

See the resulting thread on members' forum . I have no axe to grind either pro or anti natural cork or screwcap but I thought you might be interested in this interview last week with...

Ex Wine Spectator editor Jim Gordon asks in a recent report on a symposium on bottle stoppers at Copia in Napa Valley, Has the Anti-Cork Tide Turned?   In view of the recent (if...

Find this wine as Green Point Find this wine as Domaine Chandon     As described in Moët & Chandon and its Australian protégée, I recently...

Damien Casten, Candid Wines, IL: I recently overheard a British winemaker operating near Beaune express a strongly held opinion that chlorine leaked into the atmosphere by the...

Simon Tam, Hong Kong: Just how long does it take for TCA to leach from cork to wine? In a recent show for picnic desperation where none of us 'professionals' had a corkscrew, one of my more...

Esperanza Mendiola, Mexico: I would like to know if it is possible to have a good wine even if when you take the cork out it does not seem in good condition? Do you really think that a customer...

Chris Lake, Kent:   I thought this note on A cure for cork taint? looked familiar. A quick Google search shows that a similar(?) system is in existence in USA (...

French biochemist Gérard Michel must be pleased with the amount of publicity his new TCA-removing kit, Dream Taste, has already garnered in the French and UK press, even before it is launched in...

Julia Harding MW, currently hard at work on the viti and vini entries to be published in the 3rd edition of The Oxford Companion to Wine due out in sep 06 kindly went to a symposium on wine...