Screw Top Wine Bottles

[polarbear]

Had a few beers with my old man last night and somehow we got onto the topic of bottle tops*

I made mention that a colleague of mine told me that Penfolds had a large number of different vintages of Grange bottled with screw tops lids and were cellaring them next to the same vintages bottled with cork. I guess the plan is to cellar the two styles of seal for a long-ish period of time to see if there is a noticeable difference in taste before Grange moves to screw caps. 

Any of the more learned members here know if this is true?
With most of the Australian wine industry using screw caps almost exclusively it makes sense that even our "most prestigious" brand would move to them eventually after a little RnD

For the record, Dad thought I was full of it

*just remembered, the subject of screw caps came up after the old man couldn't get the lid off his stubby and spent 5min digging through the kitchen draws looking for a bottle opener

[Fuzz]

Ken would be the best person to answer. Penfolds did start putting their more high end range under both screw top and cork (Grange remains 100% cork) back in 2012.

[potpest]

Found this on the topic, pretty interesting read:
http://chrisshanahan.com/articles/2007/a-new-seal-for-penfolds-grange/


Sent from my Wileyfox Swift using Tapatalk

[polarbear]

That article is almost 10 years

Guess "coming soon" means something different when talking to Penfolds

[BrightonCorgi]

I aged a screw top bottle for like 7-8 years and was fine.  It's one of my favorite daily quaffer's that I highly recommend... 

Saint Cosme "Little James' Basket Press". It's a cuvee of different vintages blended together.  Quite common in Rhone, but usually for just in house/vineyard drinking.  I can only think of one other Rhone like that which is Pere Anselme “La Fiole du Pape” Chateauneuf-de-Pape (NV). 

[Fuzz]

I have some screw top bottles that are 12+ yrs old, and they are still drinking perfectly fine.

[gusto616]

The practicality of the screw top does it for me since I'm the only drinker in the my house.