{"id":1372,"date":"2003-08-12T09:04:39","date_gmt":"2003-08-12T16:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2003\/08\/12\/1372.html"},"modified":"2003-08-12T09:04:39","modified_gmt":"2003-08-12T16:04:39","slug":"stelvin-closures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2003\/08\/12\/stelvin-closures\/","title":{"rendered":"Stelvin closures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Those wacky <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bonnydoonvineyard.com\/\">Bonny Doon Vineyard<\/a> folks (makers of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bonnydoonvineyard.com\/wi_bdv_cigare.html?s1p2\">Le Cigare Volant<\/a>, a.k.a. the UFO wine&#8212;\"as noir as anything out of James Cain, and as dark as a Huysmanian revel\"&#8212;as well as Critique of Pure Riesling and other entertainingly named wines) are stirring up trouble again: they've changed over their Ca' del Solo Big House Red and Big House White to use \"Stelvin closures,\" also known as screw caps, instead of corks.<\/p>\n<p>If you're curious about why, you could read their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bonnydoonvineyard.com\/pr_screwcap_faq.html\">FAQ<\/a>.  For example:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Q: How will my girl\/boyfriend\/companion feel when I whip out a bottle of Big House Red with a screwcap on an important date?<\/p>\n<p>A: She\/He will judge it just like anything else you might whip out. You will be judged on the quality, charm and manner of deployment rather than on the closure <i>qua<\/i> closure.  They will also appreciate the convenience and lack of need for unnecessary equipment.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Alternatively, you could read their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bonnydoonvineyard.com\/pr_screwcap_top10.html\">Top Ten Reasons for Using Screwcaps<\/a>; and if that's not enough, there's <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bonnydoonvineyard.com\/pr_screwcap_top10_02.html\">Ten More Reasons for Using Screwcaps<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those wacky Bonny Doon Vineyard folks (makers of Le Cigare Volant, a.k.a. the UFO wine\u2014&#8221;as noir as anything out of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}