I have been thinking about the best closure to use for some time now but have finally given in and bought a new technomax stelvin applicator. the reasons are myriad for this decision. But what pushed me over the edge was a discussion with one of Australia's premium wine writers who had had the opportunity to comparatively taste both cork and ROTE capped wines fom a number of vintages both here and overseas, he stated that stelvin was superior in almost all instances, he was especially critical of plastic cork and Zork for plastic taint and in the case of Zork leakage. Apart from qualitative issues, I will miss the experience of un-corking a bottle as I believe it is part of the romance of wine, but believe that time will reveal the value of stelvin as we have less loss of our valuable wine investments to spoilage and taint.
well thats my 2
cents worth!