Inman is also a screw cap pioneer, as she was one of the first luxury brands to use screw caps back in 2002.

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Ten years ago, as wineries began to seal bottles with screw caps instead of corks, there was an initial backlash before a long, slow period of acceptance that, some would argue, remains ongoing.

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But few of today's imaginative ideas would have made it onto drawing boards without cork's competition from screw-top bottle caps, plastic stoppers and aluminum Tetra Paks.

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