2005 Castello di Monastero Sangiovese Toscano IGT

[Thomas]

Here's my list of why to despise plastic closures:

1. They do fail and regularly

2. They can cling to the neck of the bottle and be hard to remove

3. They can eat a corkscrew worm

4. If you are like me, clumsy, you always put the cork back in the bottle (if you didn't decant) while you are sipping, so that if you knock it over, well, you know. You can't put the plastic back in without a hassle.

5. I don't trust plastic to touch my food for any length of time--the poly-chemistry does indeed leach. I've stopped drinking water out of plastic bottles for the same reason.