Originally Posted by travisc

When I'm on holiday, I don't pack a stopper nor do I want to worry about packing a stopper. Or a corkscrew for that matter. I'm also not the ace of opening corks, perhaps I'm biased as I'm from one of the earliest adopters of screw caps. So I don't like having to deal with the occasional cork bit in the wine. It's for these reasons that I actively reject cork based bottles in favour of screw cap.

You can try push the cork back into the bottle, and unless you've lubricated it beforehand or are a cork-martial arts master, you'll just look dorky and expend too much effort for what takes 3 seconds with a screw cap.

But hey if we're talking about tradition, corks and glass bottles are too hi-tech. They're cold beasts. They lack the romantic allure of a traditional cask with its beautiful accentuation of oakiness