I use crown caps quite frequently, and I suspect I'm not the only one.
They are excellent closures although thus far I have not bottle aged
wine in them beyond two years (but still working on that!.

I most often use them for putting wine (esp. dessert wine) in small
beer bottles. But I will also often put some of our 'house wines' into
beer bottles such that we have access to smaller bottles for those
evenings when a full bottle is just too much.

But I don;t think we have issue with corks that your Italian friends
do, do you?




On 2007-10-22 02:53:48 -0700, John LaBella > said:

> During a recent trip to Italy I spent some time with some home brewers
> of wine.
> Their consensus was that corks were becoming quite inferior construction
> materials etc.
> They disliked the plastic corks saying they were too difficult for the
> home winemaker to use effectively/easily.
>
> Their solution was to use crown caps (like beer/pop bottles).
>
> - Perhaps something to look into?