Mundus Vini saw a significant part of award-winning wines using aluminium closures

According to a press release from Aluminium Closures Group, Mundus Vini Summer Tasting 2018 festival highlighted widespread use of aluminium closures for high quality, premiered wines across all categories.

Wines with aluminium closures snatched up awards in all categories. The event saw about 4,311 wines from all over the world being blind tasted, reviewed and rated by 175 expert judges from 40 countries.

Of the nine Grand Gold top award winners, two wines used aluminium closures. Among the Gold medals 21%, were using aluminium closures. For Silver awardees, 22% were sealed with aluminium screw caps. Out of the total of 1572 winning still wines, 342 wines or about 22% had the modern screw cap as a preferred closure.

A recent research released by Euromonitor and IWSR also claims that aluminium closures now account for about 30% of the total global bottled still wine market.

The closure picture is interesting across different categories of wine from everyday drinking to high quality vintages.  In the €5-9.99 range of wines, about 24% used aluminium screw caps, (136 out of the 564 awards). In the next category of €10-19.99 range, 101 of 559 medalling wines were using aluminium closures representing about 18%. The above €20 category saw a 17% of the winning wines (70 out of 413) being tasted by twisting off a cap rather than pulling a cork.

“We congratulate all the winning wines and the aluminium wine closures sector! With an almost 20% share of wines in the higher price ranges using screw caps shows they are part of the package of world-class quality wines.”, said Guido Aufdemkamp, the Executive Director of the Aluminium Closures Group.

Aluminum wine screw closures can save manufacturers money and replaces corks while keeping the quality of wines intact.