ok, here's something.

screw tops:

• keep out oxygen
• don't taint the wine
• don't require you to keep a fucking corkscrew around

is it really the case that 95% of wine bottles (from really expensive shit to really cheap shit) are sealed with the archaic relic that is the cork (or fake cork) entirely due to snobbery about screw tops?

anyone got a case for bloody corks?

It feels good to open a bottle sealed by a cork. It has something of a nice ritual.

A complete lack of oxygen in a bottle may allow sulfur compounds to form that are not particularly tasty. (sometimes called 'screw cap reduction')

This can be fixed by proper decantering though.

>>3
Only if it's Kami no Shizuku level decantering.

i dunno about this, but as an irritated drunk let me offer some advice-
if you buy a corkscrew, CHECK TO MAKE SURE THE METAL BITS ARE MADE OF METAL AND NOT PLASTIC PAINTED SILVER

i just wasted 1.99 on a corkscrew that broke on the first bottle

>>5
Get a proper waiter's friend and never look back.

I was shocked and dismayed to discover that one of my favourite wines had changed from corks to screw tops. Screw tops may be simpler and technically better, but they feel cheap.