...And for plastic caps ending up in the sea for a few centuries.

I don't know about you, but most (all?) of the screw caps I've seen are metal, not plastic.

I think the parent was commenting on how screw caps were better than the plastic "cork" style as well.

For alcohol, that's true, but most cheap wines use plastic caps around here.

Here (New Zealand) all wine at all price points, have screw caps

The ones I get are aluminum with a plastic gasket. Which is less plastic than a plastic cap, but not zero.

Well, not superior in every way.

If you don't drink a lot of wine in one sitting and have bottles that have been opened, corks seem to average out to being better for re-sealing the bottle -- specifically if you're placing them horizontally, like in a wine cooler. I've found screw caps frequently tend to leak, even over a single evening. Even with the hole from the corkscrew, the cork tends to reseal better from my experience.

With that said, I am talking about actual cork and not the plastic versions; Those will seep just as bad as screw caps.

If you like wine and don't kill bottles in one sitting, I think the preferred resealing option are those rubber stoppers held in place by vacuum. Probably regardless of original packaging.

I try to avoid having bottles sit around opened, so generally when we open one, the idea is to finish it in a day or two. The vacuum stoppers are good, but honestly, it's so much simpler to just stick the original wooden cork back in, give it a good slap to make sure it's in there, and put the bottle back in the cooler until the next evening.

If I was storing opened bottles for longer than a day or two, I'd probably make heavier use of the vacuum stoppers, but I'm in that midpoint of the spectrum where I neither need the fancy tools, but still need something more than the cheap solution.

That seems reasonable to me!

> hipster

Vinophiles are now considered 'hipsters'? Is there any less hipster crowd than uber-wealthy wine collectors, a hobby dating back generations, if not centuries?