David, Good information, Thanks.

Yes, very nice David. I know very little about wine, so every tidbit is helpful.

Stay away from the pink stuff.

the best option at this point, IMO, are those synthetic corks (can't remember any of the wineries that use them off the top of my head). You still get to do the whole cork-pulling ritual, but no taint.

I'm not too fond of taint.

Rosenblum and Barefoot are a couple that I know of that use the synthetic corks. I guess it pays to have a jar full of corks when a question like that comes up.

In Ontario (out of interest, the world's largest single wine buyer), we've been presented a number of PET bottles (polysomethingorother that doesn't break when you drop it), screwcaps, synthetic corks, and now tetra packs. They haven't added a straw to the tetra packs yet, thank goodness!

Quite thankfully so, since a straw directs the beverage to a very limited area of the palate.

While I was in Whistler, I bought a bottle of Warre's Otima 10-year tawny port and thoroughly enjoyed it. It's aged 10 year's in oak barrels and is one of the best store-bought ports I've had. Highly recommended. It was about $25CAD, if I remember correctly.

And you drank the whole bottle?
Excellent gusto Peter.

I had Warre's Otima sometime last year. I still have yet to find anything nicer than this Late Bottled Vintage Quinta do Noval 1996.