As the debate over how we’re going to keep our precious wine inside the bottle continues, a very curious story recently ran in a New Zealand news magazine called The Listener. It claimed, without any evidence adduced, that screwcaps are linked to higher incidences of breast and prostate cancers – caused, said the piece, by the plastic seal inside the cap.
The story was rapidly exposed as lacking any scientific validity and the author as an anti-screwcap lobbyist. At the same time, the expectable ripple of paranoia raced through the nation. Continue reading ‘Cork and Plastic’
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