Mike Tommasi > wrote in message >. ..
> On 19 Aug 2004 08:08:40 GMT, Michael Pronay > wrote:
>
> >Chandon Australia and Seppelt decided to take a revolutionary step
> >for their respective top wines.
> >
> >Take a look at the slip label at the first pic:
> >
> ><http://www.wineoftheweek.com/murray/0404chandon.html>
>
> Death to the cork I say.
>
> Mike
> (another bottle ruined last night, a Coteaux du Languedoc by Domaine
> Leyris Maizieres, must have had TCA in milligram quantities, never had
> a bottle so strongly tainted).
>
> Mike Tommasi, Six Fours, France
> email link http://www.tommasi.org/mymail

Amen. The tide is turning strongly against the old cork. I just read a
report in today's Reading Eagle (local paper) that Hogue of Washington
is starting to switch to screw caps for several lines of their wine. I
have yet to taste a wine stopped with synth cork that was tainted in
any way.

Dan-O