Oregon State University has released research clearly showing that wine snobs are full of it. Everybody likes to claim that there's something about natural cork that makes for better wine than synthetic cork or screw tops. However, everybody is apparently incapable of distinguishing the difference in blind taste tests, so as noted before, everybody is full of it. Wine from bottles sealed with synthetic corks and even (gasp!) screw tops is every bit as good as the same wine sealed with natural cork, maybe even better since natural cork can grow fungus.
Currently, of course, wine in screw caps may well be terrible, but that has more to do with the type of wine that is put in screw cap bottles. As far as I know, the research didn't cover boxes.
Beer snobs, on the other hand, seem to be in agreement that beer in cans is far inferior than beer in bottles. Unlike wine drinkers, however, beer drinkers will go ahead and drink the cans anyway, if that's what's around. If it's not so good, they'll just drink it faster. Standards only get you so far.
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