Originally Posted by
wallaby
Well here in Australia I would just twist the screwtop off.
90% of our wine (including imports) is bottled that way now.
I was going to mention this. Increasingly, you can find GREAT bottles of white with the screw cap, and decent reds with the same. Great red wines still tend to use a cork, but for casual drinking in a hotel room you can usually find something OK that is a screw cap.