Are Screw-Cap Wines Low Quality?
Screw-cap wines have perhaps a deserved but outdated reputation as cheap, insignificant and low quality wines. This reputation stems from the first use of screw caps on wines in the 1950s. Brands associated with bottle caps instead of corks were usually low price and tended not to be wines you’d want to write home about. However, as wine has been understood on a more scientific level, screw-cap wines may now have a very different reputation. Corks don’t always protect wines as well as they should, and plastic “imitation corks” may not be perfect at the job for storing wines either. This has led to a number of high quality screw-cap wines, because the newer caps may actually mean better storage in the bottle.
