Long live the screwcap! tn I'm inclined...and remember, I've only started posting in this group a few weeks ago, and I'm NO expert... to think that wine, like anything, can benefit (*sometimes*) from technology, and this is one of those times....Technology is a fascinating thing. And, I DO remember, a particular "Three's Company", where Norman Fell smelled the screw cap of a crappy "boone's farm" type wine at a restaurant, as a joke. This was 20 years ago, and screw caps on wine were a real joke...no one realized at the time what they could do... Now that there's not cork issue, I can now store my wines standing up...And this is better if I have a wine that has a lot of sediment in it. I don't have to worry about the cork drying out, right? The only downside I can see is, in wine cellars, with wines laying down, it might be easier to see what which wine was...but, there's no reason you can't just lay a bottle down anyway...cork or cap...doesn's make any differnence I was at a tasting recently...and the guy directing it mentioned that one vinter (R. H. Phillps) had decided to go with screwcaps, but eleceted to include a cork, attached to the bottle, just to let the consumers know that it was NOT a cost issue. As for me...I like screw caps and natural corks. Synthetic corks...Grrrr....I've had a few synthetic corks actually BROKE my corkscrews...(although the corkscrews were plastic...)` Well, that's out of the realm of my experience. I would be interesting, though, to see if wines aged differently BECAUSE of a cork. Maybe just he right amount of air would get into the wine. Maybe the cork, after years and years, would impart a certain flavor... 
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