{"id":537,"date":"2010-05-04T16:00:41","date_gmt":"2010-05-04T16:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=537"},"modified":"2010-05-04T16:00:41","modified_gmt":"2010-05-04T16:00:41","slug":"wine-closures-in-the-the-wall-street-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/business-of-wine\/wine-closures-in-the-the-wall-street-journal","title":{"rendered":"Wine closures in the The Wall Street Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/corkmarket.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-538\" title=\"corkmarket\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/corkmarket.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"183\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/corkmarket.gif 183w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/corkmarket-105x150.gif 105w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 183px) 100vw, 183px\" \/><\/a>Coincidentally, the day after I returned from Planet Zebulon, where I&#8217;d been visiting Nomacorc&#8217;s headquarters, <em>The Wall Street Journal<\/em> ran a feature on the way synthetic corks and screwcaps have taken market share away from natural cork, focusing strongly on Nomacorc. You can <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052702304172404575168120997013394.html?mod=e2tw\" target=\"_blank\">read it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The article is pretty comprehensive, and contains an interesting graphic based on Nomacorc&#8217;s estimates showing the way that the closures market currently stands (<em>right<\/em>). Of a total closures market of 18 billion, synthetics account for 20%, with Nomacorc alone making up 11% of the closures market worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>This is for still wine, presumably, and bottle formats of 75 cl and above (many smaller format bottles come with a screwcap and this would skew the figures).<\/p>\n<p>What would be interesting to see would be a graphic showing the figures for different markets, and also an indication of trends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coincidentally, the day after I returned from Planet Zebulon, where I&#8217;d been visiting Nomacorc&#8217;s headquarters, The Wall Street Journal ran a feature on the way synthetic corks and screwcaps have&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[91],"class_list":["post-537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-of-wine","tag-closures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":539,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions\/539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}