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Tablas Creek has a mix of wine bottles with corks and screw caps.

CORK VS. SCREW CAP: The debate over which wine closure is better continues but for Tablas Creek, it's a little of each.

Paso Robles (AVA)

Are Screw Cap Wine Bottles Sensible or Not?

Pop Quiz: If a screw cap wine closure offered the same qualities that a traditional cork does while providing the convenience of easy removal and easier re-capping, which would you prefer: Screw Cap or Cork?

by Eleanor & Ray Heald
August 20, 2007

Before you answer, read what Tablas Creek Vineyard’s General Manager Jason Haas has to say about each. In fact, it’s a question he is continually asked. Just recently, he had his third discussion in a week with a consumer as to why the winery bottles some of its wines in Stelvin screw caps and others with natural cork.

The consumer inquired whether it was because wines under screw cap were less expensive than those with a cork closure.

They're not.


Eleanor & Ray Heald (ERH): What further explanation did you give the consumer?

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