Protecting white wines - an alternative to screw caps...

Interesting read in one of the Economist blogs - http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2013/12/oenology

Looks like it is still on the drawing board.

Bolleaux

they're talking about chemically changing the wine..

Who wants that? What effect would it have on the taste of the wine?

It's a solution for a problem where the solution is worse than the problem.

Incidentally the article says "France bans screw-tops outright"....

well, not outright because I have had French wine (and others) bottled in France with screwcaps, including Bordeaux reds and I beleive

I can't recall if screwtopped wines are sold in France, but I know theysell wine in plastic bottles that don't have corks.

Heck, the French sell wine "en vrac", which means that you show up with your own container and they put the wine into it, dispensed from something that looks like a petrol station pump.

-Paul W.