Adam Lechmere (decanter.com) writes:
It's official: screwcap? is the best closure for the vast majority of wines, both red and white.
This is the opinion of Decanter magazine's most senior contributors, from Steven Spurrier to Linda Murphy in California and Huon Hooke in Australia, tastings director Christelle Guibert and restaurant critic Brian St Pierre.
In an article entitled '50 Reasons to Love Screwcaps?' in the August issue of the magazine, our wine experts are unequivocal.
'Given the choice of the same wine with screwcap or cork?, I'd choose the screwcap every time,' Sunday Times wine writer Joanna Simon writes.
And her sentiments are echoed by Spurrier – 'the Stelvin is one of the best things to have happened to wine in my lifetime'; Hooke – 'for delicate young white wines…the screwcap is the best closure we have'; Charles Metcalfe – 'in short, they deliver your wine from the bottle in the state that the producer intended.'
Each critic lists their top five wines under screwcap – and they are by no means all white.