Furiocity.com - Screwcaps

This week's peeve involves screw caps. Why the hysteria? We recently had a few wines that were closed by screw caps; the wines were excellent and the caps were much easier to close compared to trying to jam the cork back into the bottle. Plus there is no chance of TCA contamination that are possible with natural corks nor oxidation problems associated with synthetic corks.

Furiocity.com - Tasting Fees

I have started using a new site to open threads on things in the wine industry that bother us. Today I posted a peeve on the excessive price wineries charge for merely tasting their wines. Lately we've had to pay $10 and the fee wasn't even waived when we purchased a bottle. For now on, we are no longer visiting wineries that charge more than $5 and don't waive the fee after purchase.