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SCREW CAPS AND GLASS STOPPERS Influential wine critic Robert M. Parker Jr. has predicted that by 2015 more wines will be opened with the twist of a wrist than the pull of a cork. Screw caps eliminate the oxidation and taint problems, are simple to open--no corkscrew required!--and reseal easily. After decades of being associated with cheap wine, they're finally overcoming their image problem. New Zealand already closes more than 80% of its wines with screw caps. The French even use them on a few prestigious Bordeaux and Burgundies...
...Vineyard, held a mock funeral for the cork in 2002; today 99% of his wines use screw caps. Fetzer and Stone Cellars by Beringer have gone so far as to put their single-serving screw-top wines in plastic bottles. Whitehall Lane goes a step further and uses elegant glass stoppers for its expensive bottlings...
...worst comes to worst, ask your tanned compadre to get lunch or coffee, and really sort out what Namibian toddlers know about the glass ceiling...
...Light as Air There are bright young things, and then there's Paul Cocksedge, 28, who was shortlisted for the U.K.'s Designer of the Year award in 2004. Light as Air, the result of the Londoner's experiments with glass blowing, is his most beguiling work yet. As organic in appearance as an undersea tube worm, it can be used on your desk or as a freestanding objet d'art. www.paulcocksedge.co.uk...
Stefan Behnisch unveiled a draft of the first glass temple this week, and it already appears that he is making all the right choices. “I think every time has its challenges and every time has its answers,” Behnisch said. “There is a right time for brick and masonry and there is a right time for glass...