{"id":139,"date":"2007-12-11T06:00:02","date_gmt":"2007-12-11T13:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/11\/time-to-move-beyond-natural-cork\/"},"modified":"2007-12-11T06:00:02","modified_gmt":"2007-12-11T13:00:02","slug":"time-to-move-beyond-natural-cork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/11\/time-to-move-beyond-natural-cork\/","title":{"rendered":"Time To Move Beyond Natural Cork"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More and more wine is bottled with synthetic cork or twist off caps. Many people associate these modern enclosures with cheap wine and that makes wineries reluctant to switch. It&#8217;s a shame, really, because we&#8217;ve learned so much since natural cork was state of the art. We&#8217;ve learned that 2,4,6-trichloroanisole (TCA), a substance that occurs in natural cork, causes  a wine fault called &#8220;cork taint.&#8221; We&#8217;ve learned to make synthetic cork, which is free of such taint but can leave wine vulnerable to oxidation after several years. Finally, we&#8217;ve learned to make twist off caps that will allow a tiny, consistent amount of oxygen into the wine &#8211; enough for it to age properly, but not enough to oxidize it. After learning all that, twist off caps don&#8217;t look cheap to me; they look like really good modern closures that keep our wine in top condition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More and more wine is bottled with synthetic cork or twist off caps. Many people associate these modern enclosures with cheap wine and that makes wineries reluctant to switch. It&#8217;s a shame, really, because we&#8217;ve learned so much since natural cork was state of the art. We&#8217;ve learned that 2,4,6-trichloroanisole (TCA), a substance that occurs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-storage-and-aging"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}