Thursday, August 18, 2005
Tap the bottle and twist the cap
As read on MSN.com this morning, all you hoitey toitey's out there that think srew top wine is for bums, the homeless, cheap college kids, etc., the winery's have news for you.
Something screwy is happening in the wine world. Increasingly, the sound of a cork being popped out of a wine bottle is being replaced by the crackle of a screw cap being undone.
And just when I thought Wild Irish Rose migt be on an upswing.
How about a little MD 20/20, Night Train, Thunderbird? Where have the classics gone? I suppose all of the "old skool" twist cap wines will be replaced by something more along the lines of this: Plumpjack Winery in California's Napa Valley shocked the wine world in 1999 when it bottled half of its 1997 Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon in screw caps and sold that wine for $145 ¶ 7:31 AM
Something screwy is happening in the wine world. Increasingly, the sound of a cork being popped out of a wine bottle is being replaced by the crackle of a screw cap being undone.
And just when I thought Wild Irish Rose migt be on an upswing.
How about a little MD 20/20, Night Train, Thunderbird? Where have the classics gone? I suppose all of the "old skool" twist cap wines will be replaced by something more along the lines of this: Plumpjack Winery in California's Napa Valley shocked the wine world in 1999 when it bottled half of its 1997 Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon in screw caps and sold that wine for $145 ¶ 7:31 AM
