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I have long thought that there are several fortunes to be made by enterprising industrial designers prepared to help us...
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Oxygen and its impact on wine is a hot topic at the moment, fuelling fervent activity around the world to...
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(See this comment on the forum about Cigare Volante) In rather convoluted celebration of England’s regaining the Ashes, I offer...
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Nino Pieropan and his sons Andrea and Dario have decided to bottle their 2008 Soave Classico under screwcap, which makes...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. See also my tasting notes on...
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Here is a modest assemblage of a few wines tasted recently that made a particularly strong impression for one reason...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. In the 1990s I went to...
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Sam Chafe, research scientist now retired from Australia’s CSIRO, sent these thoughts on screwcaps back in 2004. He has clearly...
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I’ve just received the latest bulletin from Amorim, the world’s dominant producer of natural corks. The thing they really want...
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Several of you have written in response to my most recent rant about plastic stoppers to ask whether I knew...
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Wine producers of the world, please, please, please stop using plastic corks. They are utterly infuriating. There is something rather...
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I recently took part in a survey about different closures – bag in box, natural corks, screwcaps, synthetic corks and...
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New Zealand wine writer Paul Tudor has passed both parts of his Master of Wine exams and is now wrestling...
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Purple pager David Morgan wrote yesterday (see below) to ask whether screwcapped bottles should be stored upright or horizontal. I...
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I don't often give space here to unedited comments from wine producers, but Randall Grahm of Bonny Doon in California...
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