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    The Field

    A sense of closure

    Oct 10, 2024 3 minutes

    MAGINE A Utopian world where all wines are sealed with screw caps. You go on seeking investment for what you consider to be a whizz-bang wheeze for a revolutionary new stopper. “So, what have you got for us today?” asks a Dragon. “Well, I’ve got a brilliant idea for a new wine closure,” you reply. “It’s so simple. You travel to the forests of the Alentejo in Portugal, find a tree of the correct maturity, tear off some bark, dry it, press it, treat it. You chop: your wine is sealed.”

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