New Screw Cap Cork

You knew it had to happen. The world’s largest producer of cork, Amorim from Portugal, and O-I have created the HELIX. This innovative wine closure/bottle combination is an interesting mutation of the cork/screw cap concept. It’s a 100 % natural wine cork stopper with threads on the portion that goes into the bottle, and threads on the inside of the bottle opening for the cork to screw into. The top of the cork has a mushroom cap similar to what closes Sherry bottles so it can be, gripped, opened and reclosed. No corkscrew required! Potential concerns might be consumers trying to pull or push the cork out and into the bottle thus destroying the seal. Sadly, there’d be no ceremonial “pop” of a cork being expelled from a bottle either.