Screwtop

I was in a grocery store yesterday afternoon picking out wine to take to a friends' house.   I grabbed a bottle of Zinfandel which I had drunk and enjoyed last week, when my companion commented, "Screw top?" I put it back on the shelf.  "You're right, that's seen as cheap."  I picked another bottle, Zinfandel too, which had a cork.   Later I read that most wines sold nowadays in Australia and New Zealand have screwtops, or 'screw caps'.   Change is coming. More and more wines I see in the store have screwtops.  They're not destined to be put in your wine cellar for the next 12 years, but who does that?  I prefer screwtops to plastic corks which are often impossible to pull out, and when you do succeed, they are impossible to put back in the bottle.

I haven't tasted the wine I ended up buying, but later I bought another bottle of Zinfandel with a screwtop, which I am sipping now.  This one does taste cheap.