Why the crown cap?

• A crown cap is economical: for the price of a good cork, you can buy dozens of fully customised stainless-steel crown caps, making your bottle virtually indestructible.
  
  
• No storage problem, standing up or lying down, it does not matter. No leaking bottles either.
  
  
• Absolute sealing, with no exchange with the outside: that is exactly what we want for wines protected from air throughout their vinification.
  
  
• With a crown cap, there is no need to look for a corkscrew, a sommelier, a good old Charles de Gaulle, a screw and pliers, a blowtorch or a Coravin when, for example, you are hiking and fancy a drink.
  
  
• Here in Belgium, the land of beer, crown caps are part of everyday life. And when it comes to sorting, the crown cap goes into the PMC bag, whereas cork requires a specific collection point.
  
  
• Less cork, more wine! "Less Cork More Wine", 77 cl to be exact.
  
  

One last argument against cork rather than for the crown cap: when a winemaker can afford to test batches by systematically tasting the soaking water, any batch presenting a risk of cork taint is returned to the market. Although identified as risky, those batches end up back on the market.

Long live the crown cap! (...and the glass stopper, although it is more expensive, and the screw cap, although it is less convenient).