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What of other closures? Bottle caps work, but require a tool. So do synthetics; besides, they pull away from the bottle neck over time and people think they’re ugly. Hybrids are springing up, like Zork, a kind of covered, replaceable, screw/cork thing, and Vino-Lok, an elegant glass stopper secured with rubber o-rings. Both deliver the ever-important pop.
Still, screw-caps lead the pack. “Well then,” sputter the cork-heads, “how about restaurants? Diners can’t possibly enjoy an upscale meal without the pop and circumstance of a good uncorking!”
True, sommeliers, are a concerned about screwing-up the opening ceremony. Do you present the customer with the cap? (The consensus is no; sharp edges are a lawsuit-in-waiting.) I’ve heard tales of servers covering the cap with a napkin, turning around and making a popping sound with their mouth. Still, all the soms I know are pro-screw.
But, luckily, for those who insist on complicating a simple thing, there’s the Wine Fritz: a big metal cap that conceals the small metal cap from sensitive-eyed consumers both during and after the twist-off. It even claims to make a “distinctive sound,” although to me it was more of a grind than a pop.
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