AMERICAN CANYON ? Alcan Packaging Capsules of California has started Napa Valley production of aluminum screw caps for the wine industry. The company, part of Rio Tinto Alcan of France, began ...

AMERICAN CANYON ? There are now two manufacturers of screw caps for wine bottles planning to start making caps in Napa Valley. Alcan Packaging, a division of Rio Tinto Alcan of France, recently ...

One of the most perplexing problems facing the wine industry has to do with wine bottle closures. That is to say, what is the best way to seal or close a bottle of wine to insure that it will retain ...

The screw cap might have been a breakthrough but consumers weren't ready, writes Mark Lawson. When the wine industry first started to seal wine bottles with screw caps instead of the traditional corks ...

My recent columns on the growing acceptance of Stelvin (screw cap) closures for both white and red wines brought a flood of interesting reader mail. I do appreciate the thoughtfulness that goes into ...

Q: Should a mid-quality wine with a screw-top be stored on its side? A: The use of screw-caps (the most common is the Stelvin closure) as an alternative to traditional cork has become more and more an ...