Croser slams screwcap movement as "unintellectual"

After a period in the doldrums the UK weekly wine trade publication Harpers (www.harpers.co.uk) has become really quite meaty.

It still doesn’t arrive until Monday morning whereas in the good old days it arrives on Friday or Saturday but my issue today has taken me an admirably long while to digest. Here’s just a little of what I found interesting, chiefly original, though not sensational, stories fed in by their reporters’ actually attending events.

• Australian wine luminary Brian Croser who started up Petaluma stands up for cork at a talk he gave recently to the Association of...