http://www.delongwine.com/news/2006/0 8/15/a-little-closure/

Analytical data obtained for oxygen ingression into wine bottles during twenty four months of horizontal storage showed significant differences among the various closures...

Just a brief note - my closures book is now available from WineTitles in Australia here. As an aside, it's just turned really cold in London. Worryingly, my vines were gearing up for budbreak, a couple of weeks early. Some frost now could spell disaster...

Forum: Wine Talk Posted By: Tom Hill Post Time: 09-26-2007 at 01:33 PM

Cork history and current trends in wine closures. Information about each type of closure, including plastic corks, screw caps and crown caps, with the advantages and disadvantages of each. Text: What About Plastic Corks And Screw Caps? Download Standard Podcast...

Posted by BEB: Thanks, Tom. I might actually do something I've not done in several years.... buy a WS. And along the issue of closures ... The NYTimes has a piece on screwcaps and their connection with the perceived increased in reduction. [url=http://www.nytimes....

Just found a nice to-camera piece on closures by Australian wine writer Max Allen, originally on a show called Better Homes and Gardens, and which is now on the Zork website - you can see it here. Until this, I'd never seen a Zork in action before. I met Max for lunch at St John a while back (my old blog tells me it was 15 September 2005); he's a nice chap. I'm looking forward to an Alion...

If you thought the closures debate was dead, then take a look at the comments in response to a news story on Decanter.com. Some interesting reading: I'm particularly interested by the post by Eric Baugher. Not so convinced by Chris Exley's point: the wine simply doesn't come into contact with aluminium in a screwcap unless someone forgot to put the liner in. I've been researching a piece on wine...

Going into our big Riesling judging today, I figured we would be able to get a sense of where the Pacific Northwest stands in alternative closures. With Riesling being a white wine that generally will be drunk in its youth, there would be a greater likelihood of alternatives such as screwcaps and synthetics...

... writing a piece on closures for US trade magazine Wines & Vines . The topic was alternative closures ... and Diam.The whole closures debate seems to have died down a little of late. What we really need ... levels do the existing closures we have deliver?Synthetic cork manufacturer Nomacorc have embarked ... a range of closures. The project will be following the wines from grape to analysis, knowing...