Peeve number 3.5:

[niallmac]

Fake corks in otherwise good bottles of wine. I notice some of my favorite Australian wines do this.
Enough wines out there I can just not buy the fake cork users.
It's a rain forest ecology thing I've been told so why not support a little green
acitivism with your vino?

[crim son]

1. I think ecologically speaking we're at the point where we can

no longer judge a wine by its cork. The screw-top though... that's INTOLERABLE!

[malta blue]

5. There are some great screw top wines out there...

Charles Melton makes a Rose with a screw top...now before you cap on the rose, may I say that the Melton is an exceptional specimen. It retails about $20 and is great for a summer picnic.

The synthetic cork actually reduces the risk of oxidation within the bottle, thereby reducing the risk of the wine spoiling and becoming "corked." One on 20 bottles will be corked using the traditional corking methods. In addition, studies have shown that the screw cap is even better at preventing the oxidation than the synthetic cork.

[crim son]

6. I know it, and I've had good wines come with a screw-off top.

But I always feel like I should be drinking it out of a ceramic mug, or something. Aethetically it's not pleasing!

[malta blue]

9. a ceramic mug?

:rofl:

hey, even wine from a box is okay in Reidel (well maybe not, but you get the point)

Peace

[thefool_wa]

8. I prefer my wine

Out of a box!


:rofl:

j/k

[Rabrrrrrr]

2. Um.. you do realize that the fake corks are used for environmental

reasons, to reduce the amount of cork being harvested? And because the fake corks protect the wine better than real cork?

Same thing with screw tops - they do a much better job of protecting the wine.

[jmowreader]

3. They're easier to knock down into the bottle, too

[niallmac]

4. Nope. Don't realize it. Read this:

http://environment.about.com/od/greenlivingdesign/a/wine_stopper.htm

[Rabrrrrrr]

10. Well, son of a gun. I don't trust about.com, so I did some more reasearch

on my own, and I found similar information in a number of places, written by different people who didn't all seem to be cribbing off the same report.

I had heard a few years ago that wineries were going to fake corks becuase of the environmental damage of cork harvesting and lack of sufficient cork. Looks like I misread, I read correctly and they are fucked or were lying, or I read correctly and over the years twisted it to my own imagining.

Thanks for the corrective!

You could have been it less condescendingly, but then I started it with my rudely snide retort, so I can't complain. :7

[niallmac]

11. Was away for a day.

Oh you can complain. if I came across rude then theres no excuse for that.
Everything I know is
a correction of my own misinformation that my wife has clued me in on.
She should be writing these posts not me.


:toast:

[evirus]

7. i think thats horse ****

people who think that don't understand how plants work, want more corks? dont want to chop down rainforests? plant more trees and use those for your corks.

[asthmaticeog]

12. Cork, schmork. I like good wine.

If the wine is good, I'm not too pressed about the part of the packaging I throw away first. :shrug:

There are even some brilliant wines starting to ship in screwcaps lately, which, though I've heard it's better for the wine, bums me out a little, as I can no longer refer to cheap supermarket crap wine as "Chateau Screwcap."