Have I become I wine heathen?

Here I am, taken my time to choose a bottle of wine to go with my regular Friday night pizza, finally settling on a bottle of Pinot that looks half decent for my budget. I then find myself putting the bottle back because it (wait for it) has a cork!

At the time I thought nothing of it, but now it’s had time to simmer, I now wonder what the heck has happened to me. I’m a man of simple tastes and I relish the ‘experience’ of things. For example a short black is far more satisfying when you’ve ground the beans, filled the portafilter and seen it through to the final brew.

I used to have a similar experience with pulling a cork, and even enjoyed using the more complex method of using a proper Pulltaps corkscrew that posh waiters use. For me it was all part of the experience.

So have I become a wine heathen? Well, after a bit of Googling, the story that I’m gonna stick to from here on is that screw caps have a near zero chance of the wine being corked and are more environmentally pc. I’m sure that’s what I was thinking at the time