Relative wine upstarts like Australia and Chile embrace new technology and in the process leave the old guard in places like France and Spain wondering what happened.
TWC favors cork to modern screwtops (I don't care a fig that screwtops are very nearly a perfect closure for wine bottles).
At the same time, I also recognize that tradition must be free to evolve in the marketplace. The lesson in this Wired story is that bureacracy stifles innovation when tradition is welded into place by force of law.
Lots of good background and links.
Tip of the glass to Jeff Taylor at Reason Express.