Why does Amietta use screw caps rather than corks?
A. Because they do a better job. No one would accept a bottle of soft drink, a bottle of milk or a bottle of beer that was ‘sealed’ with something as un-hygienic and poorly performing as a cork. Cork sealed wines are frequently diminished or ruined by ‘cork taint’ or from premature oxidation because the cork has failed to seal the bottle properly. At Amietta we use Stelvin/screw caps on all our wines – reds, whites and rosés. We strive to produce wine of the highest quality, and screw caps mean that there’s no loss of quality after bottling due to failure of the closure or by contamination of the wine by TCA (cork-taint compound produced by microbes in the cork). Screw caps allow us to be confident that every bottle in a batch is as good as the next, and the next, and the next.
