A lot of modern wines have modern corks made of plastic, working like the original cork ones so the wine can breathe; it is like a bundle of tight-packed filaments.
There are good wines with a screw-cork, too.
I would prefer the original cork, however it depends on the wine, not the package.
A long time ago we had a discussion with Bruno Prats, back then a wine-grower from the Bordeaux region. He said that a good cork is a pricey thing, not only because of buying the cork-oak plug itself, but because natural corks sometimes malfunction, 'bleeding' unwanted substance in the wine, or letting too much oxygen into the bottle, thus spoiling some of the harvest. Especially bad when it is an expensive wine being spoilt. A lot of wine bottles develop their flavour over ten+ years, so if the cork fails at some point...
Prats said he would like to use new sterile artificial ones (those i mentioned above), but apart from being expensive a lot of traditional clients would not buy a Bordeaux wine without a natural cork..
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Last edited by Catfish; 09-21-17 at 08:37 AM.
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