NOTHING ON THE TOP
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Big Basin Vineyards, located in Boulder Creek, CA (halfway between San Francisco and Monterey) has an interesting take on how to foil a bottle of wine--don't.
Their winemaker, Bradley Brown, explains in the video below that they came to the conclusion that foils (and wax) don't serve a pragmatic purpose, that they are just a convention from the past. I don't agree completely, I think they still protect the top of the cork from dust (although Brown argues that they hide more problems than they solve), and I don't see where the line of divorcing the wine from the aethstetic package ends (OK, I do, it is the 15L wine box they serve wine out of at restaurants). But maybe not having a capsule will make a bottle stand out more on the shelf.
Watch the video and let me know what you think in our forums. And thanks to @myvinespace for the link.
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