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Closure sought on closures.
 


Wine Buzz: Closure sought on closures
01 October 2012  by Chris Macias, www.sacbee.com
"Wine Buzz" has previously touched on a wine-enclosures study that could have huge ramifications for the global wine industry.
Are corks and screw-caps equally effective as wines age? If two bottles of the same wine taste different, could that be because of the type of enclosure that's used? 

Those are among the questions being probed by the Bottle Aging – Closure and Variability Study, which is being conducted by the University of California, Davis, in partnership with the PlumpJack Group. 

We've got some more details on the breadth of this study:... read on
 
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