Science Feature
Screwy Solutions
By Darryl Korell
A special to Eat Vancouver
Saturday, February 18th, 2006
California’s PlumpJack winery is well known for its Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon wines, which sell for about $155 a bottle. But it is not their taste or their price that makes them noteworthy; these PlumpJack wines have screw tops.
It used to be unimaginable to see anything other than cork when purchasing more expensive wines. But, today, many wineries such as Calera, Sonoma-Cultrer, and Wolf Blass put screw tops on some of their higher end wines.