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Pastimes : Wine You Can Enjoy @ Under $20 -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jon Khymn who wrote (334)	4/23/2006 2:44:35 PM
From: MoneyPenny	Respond to of 1277

I often buy the wines of Bonnie Doon or Ca del Solo and have become used to their screwcap closures. Caymus' signature wine, Conundrum, now bottled away from their classic Marque, uses a screw cap. I still use vacuvin to close even these bottles if I do not use them all at once. (I am now a household of one) I think that wines that deserve long aging may still get the full cork closure but it only takes on or two super premium wines that have maderized to change one's point of view on the wisdom of screw cap closures.

To: Jon Khymn who wrote (334)	4/24/2006 12:41:39 AM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1277

Of the wines listed I would say that Bonny Doon is a top flight producer. I drank some of a magnum of 1966 Latour which had developed some ullage. It is a problem that a properly cared for screw cap is unlikely to face (I have never seem an ulled Boons Farm.) While it never dreamt of being a twenty dollar bottle, it was fantastic. Unfortunately the rest of my family agreed and it was quickly consumed. Deep, rich ripe and ready to drink. Excellent color and lipid. Nose was very fulfilling. A magnum without ullage could well age another decade. The economics make the price difference irrelevant to the price of a top flight wine. If some producers want to ensure that they are not selling any wines spoiled by the cork, I might understand. In my life, I have drunk many hundreds of bottles of wine sealed with corks. I only remember one being corked. Until someone proves that the new technology is superior, skepticism has its place.