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I have been looking into buying a winery for about a year now. I've done incredible amounts of research into all aspects of the business, and I haven't found enough proof to suggest the use of plastics and metal screw caps does anything but harm the environment.

All of those wineries out there advocating the use of those two items and claiming they're being environmental are simply mistaken, or were only looking for cost savings and passing them off as earth-friendly.

Deidre perhaps you could add this web link to your post [rather than just leaving it in the comments section], it certainly is complimentary to your article:

http://www.savemiguel.com/

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Although arguing with The Wine Spectator is tough, a 15% spoil rate for any product is extremely high, and none of the wineries I've looked at buying have one even close to that.

I suppose one could argue they fudged their numbers for the sale, however even in the electronics business which has crazy spoil rates, 15% is high.

Every business that deals with spoil rates, builds these costs into their pricing and I have my doubt any of them are discounting their product 15% once they stop using cork.

There are also no proven statistics that suggest wine brands are tarnished when a consumer opens a bad bottle. Providing the consumer can return and exchange any bad bottle, there is no reason for the consumer to purchase anything but corked wine. ]]>Dec 1st 2008 7:42PMhttp://www.luxist.com/2008/12/01/the-disappearing-cork-forests-of-portugal/http://www.luxist.com/2008/12/01/the-disappearing-cork-forests-of-portugal/
As a person who spent over 20 years let me assure you that the average consumer doesn't realize what a corked bottle is.

If they happen to get a corked bottle they typically just think the wine is lousy (not necessarily faulty)

In my experience, this leads them to avoid purchasing the same wine (or anything from that winery) again. I've seen it first hand hundreds of times.

Even after explaining cork taint and why it leads to an off bottle, it was always very difficult and or impossible to get them to take a replacement of the same wine.

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