NYT-WR Screw caps are a relatively recent and convenient way to seal a bottle of wine. Plus, they're recyclable when deposited in the bins and roll carts we put at the curb. But it's probably ...

Screw caps can be customized with cap liners that allow just a bit of oxygen into the wine. Yet Peterson-Nedry uses tin liners that are impervious to oxygen, which he insists is wine’s enemy.

Despite wine-makers experimenting with screw caps that mimic corks by allowing a small amount of oxygen into the wine, Schneider predicted that corks will never be replaced entirely but that corks ...