Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A cover to protect or conceal the head of a screw, or a cap or cover fitted with a screw.
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Examples
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Based near Bordeaux, WIT is a recently founded firm that packages wine in screw-cap glass tubes containing 4, 5, 6 or 10 centiliters of wine to be sent out as gifts, samples or as "the business card you can drink."
It's Lights, Camera, Strike in France Lennox Morrison 2010
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The Stelvin closure, or screw-cap, has been a very positive new development that has led to the elimination of "corked" wines.
Brad Haskel: When Is It Okay To Refuse A Bottle Of Wine? 2009
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At AT&T Park home of the San Francisco Giants, the wines are quite popular outselling similar products with screw-cap tops and wines poured by the glass.
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At AT&T Park home of the San Francisco Giants, the wines are quite popular outselling similar products with screw-cap tops and wines poured by the glass.
Francis Ford Coppola Wine to be Sold in Single Serve Plastic Cups 2007
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The horrible thing about screw-cap bottles of wine, says the website butterflywineopener.com, is that they suck all the romance out of bottle opening.
Never Embarrass Yourself Trying To Unscrew A Wine Bottle Again - The Consumerist 2009
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Also, one cannot say there won't be a certain percentage of "off" wines that have been closed with a screw-cap - mostly due to problems with reduction.
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Word often used in the heated debate between cork and screw-cap camps, in which some argue that this complex reaction causes off smells (at least briefly) in wines closed with screw caps.
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It's even packaged using a Stelvin screw-cap closure, so you don't even have to worry about packing a corkscrew.
Archive 2008-10-01 2008
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It's even packaged using a Stelvin screw-cap closure, so you don't even have to worry about packing a corkscrew.
Wine Blogging Wednesday #50: Wine and the Great Outdoors 2008
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Now that an increasing number of wine producers are going to screw-cap bottles, will a metal screw-cap work in lieu of the cork?
Octopus You Can Make at Home - Bitten Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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