Why not?

[*newbie*]

OK.....since I am a newbie, I may just be missing the boat on this subject. I purchased a bottle of Beringer Merlot and after trying that I followed that up with a bottle of Chardonay from Beringer. As I opened both bottles I noticed that they (Beringer) had put just enough wax on cork to cover the top. That got me wondering why everyone else doesn't do that??? If corked wine is due to bad cork wood that allows air into the bottle then why not eliminate relying on the cork alone? Simply add a dab of wax on the top. Heck, it makes sense to me. I could see some of the extremely affluent wine drinkers snubbing thier noses at this practice because any great wine that they would drink could not have bad corks. What is the opinion of the BBS?

Doug (flame suit on)