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Clare Valley winemakers and their role in taking the global wine industry from cork to screw cap

When you're in your local bottle-o picking up your favourite wines, you probably don't overthink the fact that most of the wines you see have screw caps. 

But if you journey back to the early 2000s, you might remember the familiar feeling of banging around kitchen drawers in the hunt for a bottle opener … and then praying the cork comes out in one piece.

In the early 60s and 70s, a few Australian winemakers tried their hand at moving away from cork, but the public was not sold.

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