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I've been using bottle caps for 20 years. A bit of an uphill climb to begin when I brought out a crown capped bottle, but the contents proved the concept. In 1986 a friend and I made a very good barrel of Zinfandel from California grapes and we decided to do the definitive test. A dozen under cork, a dozen crown capped in 750 mL Andres sparkling wine bottles (regular cap). We have opened them blind over the years with friends and ALWAYS got the opinion that the crown cap tasted 'better'. Luck held and no corks failed. The last 2 went 4 years ago. Steinlager beer is a great bottle. I do a lot into Corona bottles. No label to soak off, easy to see if clean, nice size for dinner.<div><br></div><div>cheers, wayne<br><div><div>On 2-Jul-08, at 4:03 PM, Larry Paterson wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Does anyone know of a Canadian supplier who can access the European size crown caps (the 29 mm size, not the more usual 26 mm we see here in Canada on beer bottles and sparkling wine). Also, does anyone know where a capper or adaptor could be found to use these caps?</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">I think that keeping 1-3 year wines in such containers (assuming you can locate the right bottles) would be a very wallet -and -environment friendly way to bottle wines. Think of that riesling or gewurz, vidal or prairie star that you will drink over the next three years. Why not a bottle cap?</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Lardy</font></div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Larry Paterson, lfw, rd, adcc<br>(Little Fat Wino, Roving Drunk, Alcohol Distribution Channels Critic)</font></div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"><a href="http://www.littlefatwino.com/">http://www.littlefatwino.com/</a></font></div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Growwine mailing list</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="mailto:Growwine@littlefatwino.com">Growwine@littlefatwino.com</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="http://lists.littlefatwino.com/mailman/listinfo/growwine">http://lists.littlefatwino.com/mailman/listinfo/growwine</a></div> </blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>