I brought up this topic in another thread in which someone had purchased and was excited to finally taste a Barolo only to find out it had suffered from severe cork taint and was brown in color and undrinkable.
A recent article in wine spectator brought up the fact that serious wine collectors are now starting to flock towards collecting screw cap wines for the simple fact that it actually is a more secure (better) way of sealing out air and other undesirable smells or tastes over long periods of time. Corks can and do break down such as in this case. For a serious collector a screw cap is a type of "insurance" so to speak.
Its certainly NOT as romantic to twist off a screw cap vs popping a cork but quite honestly in a few short years we could all be buying screw cap bottling systems as cork wine bottles become harder and harder to find.
So what do you think?