My understanding is that properly appled twist caps are better than
corks. That is why many commercial wineries are switching to twist
caps. However, home winemakers do not have the ability to apply caps
properly. Reusing old caps MAY give a good seal the first couple of
times, but not forever. The new caps that are available will only fit
specific bottles, eg Arbor Mist bottles. Also, I have seen some
discussion that these new caps are not as good as the type used by
wineries. I don't personally know about that.

BTW, the above is about twist caps and wine bottles. Crown caps and
beer bottles is another matter.

Stvee

On 18 Apr 2006 17:37:25 -0700, "mdginzo" > wrote:

>When I am ready to bottle my latest wine I want to consider corks. In
>the past I have use twist caps and I think the results were good, but
>those were test runs with 1 gallon batches. I have a 5-gallon Concord
>going and i think I want to go with corks, but I want to ask: are
>corks neccesarily better than twist caps? I know that corks give the
>bottle a more classic look, but I would go with the convenience of
>twist caps if I thought they were just as good as corks or better.