TomHill wrote:Oliver McCrum wrote:Dale,
My understanding is that the new range of closures with different oxygen transmission characteristics will allow producers to match the closure to the wine, rather than the other way around.
I haven't add any problems with bashed screw caps either; there are certainly a range of application mistakes that can be a problem, too, but I haven't had any wine ruined by them yet.
Curious, Oliver.....how does a winemaker choose the OTR on the closure?? If he's given a
choice of X ml O2/yr or 2X or 3X...how does he choose which one to use? I would think it
would take yrs of experience to get a feel for that.
Tom
Got my Balgeras from WEx last Wed. Hardly wait to try them again.
Tom,
Stelvin is now making 4 or 5 differently rated screw caps, I dare say other producers of the closure are doing the same. I don't know how a given winemaker would choose exactly which closure to use, but I would imagine that the data will pile up as people use them.