A new closure

LOL I went through the same (think I cut myself of the aluminum) sometime in the past Can't recall how but they seemed to hide the perforations one would expect on a crew top. UGH!

My wife did the same thing a few years ago, trying to open a screwcap wine with a corkscrew. She still has a difficult time with screwcaps because the doesn't have the small muscle strength to break the perforations.

I once got through a screwcap with a foil cutter

I wonder if she is doing it right. I used to struggle until I realised you could grasp the whole thing, including the bit under the perferations.

My B-I-L did that once and genuinely believed that the cork was missing - until I pointed out, much to his embarassment, that it was a screw-cap.{:-) Graham

I did exactly the same as your B-I-L once and was just as embarrassed as he was. It sure didn't look like a standard screw cap.

Sounds like th one I had, when all was said and done the cap was plastic with a heavy aluminum capsule that actually twisted from the bottom but like most of us I found that not to work because I was holding the bottom and twisting the top.

Mine was a little different because the screwcap was easily detached from the heavy capsule and was made of plastic.

Marc