3 thoughts on “POETS Day! William Faulkner’s Go at Anachronism

  1. I still remember my first (legal) glass of wine. We went out to a fancy schmancy restaurant in Old Colorado City at a place that holds a grand opening for a brand new fancy schmancy restaurant every 18 months or so.

    It was October and I knew that Opal was the birthstone of October and I looked down the glasses of wine available under the vaguely disapproving eye of my mother and saw that the second cheapest glass was Black Opal. An Australian wine. Wow! Imported! Classy!

    It was destiny.

    It’s a bottlecap wine, now. Sigh.Report

    1. It’s a bottlecap wine, now. Sigh.

      Lots of quite good wine comes with screw caps these days. The fungus that spoils the wine (produces the TCA chemical) has become widespread enough that sourcing untainted cork is a problem. Repeated testing by wineries has shown screw caps are essentially perfect — no oxygen ingress or TCA taint — for ten years. At that point the plastic used in the screw caps begins to break down and allow oxygen ingress. Unless you plan on laying the bottle down for longer than that, screw caps are actually the best choice.Report

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