not hesitate to bring a screw top wine to a friends house if I think it is good wine. I actually prefer the screw caps to the synthetic corks, as I find the synthetics to be more dificult to remove with standard corkscrews (and...

How can you have bad service when all you serve is pastries out of a case and sandwiches? That’s incredible, but I guess no matter how simple, someone can screw it up. I used to like to go to the Bread and Chocolate in the...

More fuel for the cork versus synthetic closures argument: the renewable nature of cork and the threatened state of cork forests.

it is bottled. In which case a screw-cap or a cork or any other kind of bottle closure isn’t the issue since the wine was contaminated before it went into the bottle. Screw-caps aren’t immune from problems either....

Tran Qui Cap (1st time) and Ngu Binh (1st time). So here we go: Pho Tau Bay (3610 W. 1st St) – I wrote a response about this on my other post, so here you go: http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/576549#4262603 Bottom line is that stick...

I do love when these staid winemaker meals go off the rails a little, venturing into vaguely offensive territory.

We itch for lifestyle and status, yet we also itch for the common-sense knowledge about everyday pleasures that wine seems to express so perfectly.

Musings on the nature of the box.

Finally going tonight!!! Only took me like 6 years! Wondering if its' byob and if you suggest just bringing some beers in or is a bottle of wine alright (screw cap from Trader joes)

Here’s a link to the General Topics board for a screw cap wine recommendation. Link: http://www.chowhound.com/topics/show/289467#1567356

I run through a bottle every year or two. Never had a problem, althought the metal screw cap can make the bottle underneath kind of funky due to the interaction with the lime juice so I’ll wipe it off and rinse out the cap...

and pairings were not very good. When you start a wine dinner with the waiter coming over and opening up the screw cap on the bottle, not a good start. The wines were adequate(I’m being nice) at best and the pairings just...

Hite Beer (Korean) makes something called a ‘pitcher’. It’s a 1.6L plastic bottle of beer with a screw top cap....for when a 40oz just isn’t enough. What restaurants or markets in SF sell this novelty? I...

....! I would not upgrade for the food/wine (there is more space etc.) - grab some wine (screw cap) and a sandwich at Pret/M&S before going and you won’t be held hostage to what’s available at the station.

If I cut my nose while sniffing the screw cap do you think they will comp the wine?