# Why Doesn't All Wine Come In Bottles With Screw Caps? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 30, 2001, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-all-wine-come-in-bottles-with-screw-caps/60072 "2001-03-30T04:27:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2001, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-all-wine-come-in-bottles-with-screw-caps/60072/41 "2001-04-02T13:46:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Creaky \* > \*\*I’m scared of gin. Gin makes me mean. Bourbon’s good, though. No corks there, at least. \*\* My bottle of Wild Turkey 101 Proof has one of those aforementioned plastic topped corks. I like it. Makes a nice satisfying pop when you open it. ---
**Author:** ![obfusciatrist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4af34b/32.png) [@obfusciatrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obfusciatrist)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2001, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-all-wine-come-in-bottles-with-screw-caps/60072/42 "2001-04-02T18:45:13Z")
Don’t really have anything further to add other than to note that I just noticed that **JillGat** is **JillGat** and not **JillCat**. 18 months in this neck of the woods and I _just_ noticed this. Reading her name on staff reports and moderator lists and other stuff and I _just_ noticed this. I am an idiot. ---
**Author:** ![Creaky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e68b1a/32.png) [@Creaky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Creaky)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2001, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-all-wine-come-in-bottles-with-screw-caps/60072/43 "2001-04-02T19:04:04Z")
Waterj2: I didn’t know that bourbon came with corks. Learn something every day here. (My usual tipple is Jim Beam, avec screw cap.) Wowee… that stuff you got is 101 proof? Just goes to show what a relative babe-in-the-woods I am. I bet that ole cork does make a nice satisfying pop when you pull it out. Must be the nuclear fission behind it…! Now I guess I got to try some. I’ll tell you one thing I do like about corks in bottles. Sometimes it’s fun to get them most of the way out and then pretend to be a pirate wench and go “Arrr,” and clamp my teeth around the cork and pull it the rest of the way out, then spit it across the room and take a big swig of whatever’s in the bottle and wave the bottle around and sing raucous pirate songs. This is easier to do with a real cork than a plastic one. ---
**Author:** ![shelbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@shelbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shelbo)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2001, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-all-wine-come-in-bottles-with-screw-caps/60072/44 "2001-04-02T23:10:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Creaky \* > \*\*I’m scared of gin. Gin makes me mean. Bourbon’s good, though. No corks there, at least. \*\* If you like Bourbon, you owe it to yourself to try a shot of Blanton’s. It does have a cork, topped with a little pewter horse (from Kentucky ya’ know!). It will make you start talking like a wine snob – “oh, the vanilla and caramel flavors”. It is really fantastic. ---
**Author:** ![JillGat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc29f/32.png) [@JillGat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JillGat)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2001, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-all-wine-come-in-bottles-with-screw-caps/60072/45 "2001-04-02T23:22:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by obfusciatrist \* > \*\*Don’t really have anything further to add other than to note that I just noticed that **JillGat** is **JillGat** and not **JillCat**. 18 months in this neck of the woods and I _just_ noticed this. > > Reading her name on staff reports and moderator lists and other stuff and I _just_ noticed this. > > I am an idiot. \*\* Really. And you’ve been here a _year_? How the heck do you search the archives for all my staff reports if you can’t even spell my screen name? ---
**Author:** ![obfusciatrist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4af34b/32.png) [@obfusciatrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obfusciatrist)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2001, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-all-wine-come-in-bottles-with-screw-caps/60072/46 "2001-04-03T00:00:43Z")
Ummm…\…let’s see…ah! yes! The unusually good search engine. Yes, it would seem that the SD search engine is so good as to recognize what I meant and not what I said. Yay, SDMB infrastructure. Actually, the real answer is that I had no need to search the archives as I religiously printed each report in triplicate, filing and hand indexing them for all keyword and partial-word phrases. This index was then studied for 90 minutes each night until memorized allowing me instant access to all your wisdom when combined with my nifty rear-pocket microfiche reader. ---
**Author:** ![JillGat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc29f/32.png) [@JillGat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JillGat)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2001, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-all-wine-come-in-bottles-with-screw-caps/60072/47 "2001-04-03T05:14:34Z")
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