Wine Bottle closures

Over Christmas we drank some great wine. But almost more interesting than the contents of this particular bottle, was its bottle cap.

There are a variety of ways of closing wine bottles:

• corks made from cork
• rubber "corks"
• screwtops
• and now...Vino-Lok

The cork made from cork is going out of use, although it's probably the best for the purpose of allowing the wine to breathe.

This bottle was sealed using a "vino-lok". It's made from glass. Makes sense because now the wine producer only has to put in one order with a glass manufacturer (not an order each for the bottle and the cork), mind you there is a rubber seal involved but I imagine that's the glass manufacturer's problem so it probably ups the cost of ordering the bottles...