How to store bottles with a Stelvin screwcap Sender: Ian

Salut-Hi Tom S,

le-on Tue, 28 Feb 2006 14:58:37 GMT, tu disais-you said:-

This is a good point. However, I sincerely believe that you have to outface the Neidichs of this world and do what you know to be right - for the wine.

This question of closures is a very meta-stable one. At the moment, many winemakers (and I'm sorry but you're in the "wrong" camp in my eyes) aren't prepared to antagonise the conservatives, so you don't know how many screwcap people don't buy because you still stick to cork. But I believe that it really won't take much longer before public perception switches, and then nearly ALL the best winemakers will flip across and it will be as unthinkable (for all except the Niedichs and some people who are incapable of accepting change) to sell a wine under cork as it was for them to sell under Stelvin 10 years ago.

By the way, surely you don't HAVE to buy a screwcap bottling line, aren't there mobile bottling plants that you can ask to come and bottle your production? At least that's the case in many parts of Europe. You could continue to bottle yourself under cork and farm out the Stelvin.

ATB Ian

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