caught up with him at the recent tasting of his NYC distributor, Michael Skurnik. Initially I did worry that perhaps I had substituted one problem for another, but having worked now with screwcaps for a number of years now, I realize that it is an incredibly powerful tool for enhancing both the complexity of a wine as well as its longevity.

Although the tasting was going on in the next room, separated only by a thin curtain, the standing-room, rapt audience listened to Joly, a sort of evangelist for Biodynamics who makes wine at the Coulée de Serrant in the Loire ( search for Coulée wines ). The wines then taste the same. No, it is not a goal, it is a tool! Sounds!