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| Mar 01, 2004 |
Cork With A Twist |
| Kendall-Jackson Wine News At Kendall-Jackson Wine Estates we are always looking at innovative types of packaging for our wines... Click here. (449k.pdf). |
| Jan 01, 2004 |
Corks: The Future, by Hugh Johnson |
| Decanter About 25 years ago a Texas oilman Ted Allen changed the engineering of the corkscrew forever…. Last month in California I met the next generation of smart corkscrew engineering… Click here. (835k .pdf) |
| Dec 01, 2003 |
The Revolutionary Metacork, by Gerald Boyd |
| Vineyard & Winery ManagementCork purists like to point out that no satisfactory wine bottle closure has come along since the first woody plug was rammed into a bottle sometime at the beginning of the 17th century ... Click here. (1 Mb .pdf) |
| Dec 01, 2003 |
Wine Uncorked by G.M. "Pooch" Pucilowski |
| Sacramento Magazine Bill Gardner, a retired engineering professor from UC Davis, wasng a bottle of wine for dinner one night when the cork broke. That gave Gardner an idea ... Click here. |
| Sep 09, 2003 |
Look Ma, No Corkscrew, by Nick Fauchald |
| Wine Spectator The MetaCork, released this summer by Napa, Calif.-based Gardner Technologies ... Click here. (94k.pdf) |
| Aug 24, 2003 |
Wine Radio Network |
Exclusively on Vino! MediaSelect Speed: 56K Part 1 28.8K Part 1 56K Part 2 28.8K Part 2 |
| Aug 13, 2003 |
Invention is part cork, part cap |
| Sacramento Bee How do you pull a cork from a bottle of wine if you don’t have a corkscrew? With MetaCork, that’s how. Click here. (731k.pdf) |
| Aug 08, 2003 |
Goodbye, corkscrew; hello, cork with a twist |
| USA Today Mankind’s millennia-long search for the ideal closure for a wine bottle has taken another twist. Five or six twists, actually. Click here. (230k.pdf) |
| Aug 01, 2003 |
The Innovators |
| Money Magazine THE INNOVATORS - Bill Gardner and William Borghetti - This pair is betting it all on one big idea. Click here. (1075k .pdf) |
| May 01, 2003 |
Alternative Closure Eliminates Corkscrews yet Retains "Traditional" Packaging Look |
| Wine Business Insider drugs for the digestive system Gardner Technologies, a start-up company based in Napa, California, has quietly been working on a new alternative wine closure that is believes will revolutionize wine packaging and become the industry standard for wine closures of the future with a product launch slated for later this year. Click here. (1178k .pdf) |
| Apr 01, 2003 |
New Closures Do Double Duty |
| Wine & Vines Bottle closures have become hot topic No. 1 in the wine industry. Everyone has an opinion, but not too many people have answers. Ever former Wines & Vines Wine Writer of the Year Hugh Johnson has weighed in on the side of screwcaps. Click here. (432k .pdf) |
| Mar 31, 2003 |
Napa Company Develops Twistoff-stopper Hybrid |
| North Bay Business Journal A new Napa company has developed what it calls a consumer and trade friendly transitional product between stopper-finished wine closures and stopperless closures. Click here. (1254k .pdf) |
| Mar 01, 2003 |
Corkscrew alternative is easy on the wrist |
| Napa Valley Business Modern wine makers insist corks are rotten. But it's hard to imagine screw top wines will ever catch on with pretentious traditionalists. Now, to the rescue, comes MetaCork. Click here. (213k .pdf) |
