Can’t Tell Whether a Wine Bottle Has a Plastic Cork or Real Cork? There’s an App for That!

One of the most frequent requests I get is for a list of wines with natural cork stoppers because most of the time it’s impossible to see what kind of cork a bottle has without opening it up. When I first started this project, I began keeping a list of wines and what kinds of closures they had, but I quickly realized how futile that exercise was. There are so many brands of wine, using different closures for different varietals, and sometimes changing their packaging with new bottlings.
So I was beyond excited when I received an email pitch this week about a new website and app — okay, not actually an app but a mobile site you can access via any smartphone — called CorkWatch that lets shoppers look up specific wines to find out what kind of stopper they have.
There are several ways to search. If you know what kind of wine you want to drink, use the “Wine Type” drop down menu to choose among varietals and styles of wine. … Read the rest