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How Much Longer Will Traditional Bottle Tops and Corks Be Around
The design of bottle caps and wine bottle corks have changed very little over the last 50 years and they have done their job very well indeed. Any seasoned drinker will tell you just how many times they have woken up the find hundreds of the things scattered about the place after a big night. However, now that more advanced version of bottle top such as the screw top have come on the scene, it looks like its curtains for the classics.
Steel is the material that has been used for most bottle caps and these caps are attached to the rim of the bottle by clamping their 21 teeth around it using a special machine. Whilst they were great at keeping the contents of a bottle fresh, they are a nightmare to get off and unless you have teeth made from granite, you have to use a bottle opener to stand any chance of quenching your thirst. Most inventions come about from the desire to make things quicker and easier, and this is why tops like the screw top have been embraced in the way they have.
It’s a similar story with wine bottles, although ease of entry is not the only reason wine makers are moving away from corks. A corkscrew used to be a staple part of any dinnerware set, but its usefulness is dwindling as screw top wine bottles become more popular. In the same way as beer bottles need a bottle opener, wine bottles always required a corkscrew to be close by, and that’s just not always practical. Further to this, corks loose out massively to screw tops when it comes to the storage of wine for prolonged periods. Air can breach the cork as it expands and contracts with different moisture levels in its surroundings, and air can very easily turn a wine bad. Also, it has a tendency to break up over time if the wine is stored horizontally, as it often is on wine racks, resulting in the wine sometimes being ‘corked’ when served. Some may argue that nothing can be as good as the classic bottle top and cork designs, although all the evidence suggests that superior products are taking over in their place.
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