Swirling the Truth - Cork vs. Screw Cap

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Hi, I'm Jamie, and I'm the winemaker here at Cooper's Hawk Vineyards, and we're bringing a new series to you every week where we're going to talk about common misconceptions with wine and debunking certain myths.

This week, we're going to be talking about the screw cap versus cork, and how people think that if you have a screw cap wine, it automatically means lower quality. It does not.

Screw caps really came into popularity over the last 10 to 15 years and there's actually some countries that have almost fully switched over to screw cap including Australia and New Zealand.

Screw caps are really for keeping wine fresh so wines that are meant to be drank in the next year to three years are really going to benefit from a screw cap because it's going to keep that wine young and fresh, whereas with a cork it's actually made for aging, and although cork has been around for a very long time, and it's traditional, and everybody loves to see a cork in their bottle, it's really meant for aging wine.

So, if you want to lay a wine down for, you know, a decade in your cellar, you want to get a little bit of oxygen in the bottle, because that's going to develop the aroma and the flavors. So that's truly when you want a cork. And you know, cork does have some faults. You can get cork taint with cork, whereas that's virtually eliminated with a screw cap. You also need a cork screw to open a cork bottle, whereas you only need your hands to open up this one. And this can be resealed and you can lay it down and it won't leak, so that's another benefit of screw cap.

I hope that you learned something new today. And I hope that you come in and give it a taste for yourself and come see us at Cooper Hawk.