There are going to be more and more wines bottled with screwcaps, and incidentally for a funny reason: it’s not that producers like screwcaps, but they realize there’s a finite number of corks produced every year and they should keep the good stuff for their best wines…
BTW Ramonet is planning to move some wines to screwcaps. I’m sure others will follow or are even already starting this.
I see no reason why any wine not intended to be drunk within 3 years of release should not be a screwcap. Which means 95% of all wine should be.
We just got in some Ripasso Valpo that is bottled as IGT Veronese Covina because you can’t use screwcaps on the DOC wines (this also makes it cheaper, less paperwork and taxes). The best part is that the winery had the screwcaps silkscreened with “Terroir Wines” on the top.
Plus we got in some Alto Adige Riesling with those groovy German GLASS closures.
I think they were invented in Germany and I’m almost certain they were first used there.
The vino lok is an Alcoa product, German, but in regards to the screw. It will last a decade. Maybe more…
IMHO, bag in a box is better then screwcap for wines that are intended to drink young
And ever so classy when the waiter puts it on your table in the middle of a restaurant.