Gelber Muskateller with food?

It is.

"Crown cap" would be the term.

Well, caution. Tax on "sparkling wine" in Austria has been abandoned with April 1st, 2005. "Sparkling wine" by EU definition is anything sparkling with a pressure from 3 (or 3.5?) bar upwords.

Anything saprkling with a pressure up to 2 (or 2.5?) bar is called "Perlwein" ("frizzante" in Italian; don't know the English term). Perlwein was not taxed, except when it was "packaged like a sparkling wine". This latter fact is quite curious, of course, and I don't think this rule was applied very often.

Anything between 2 (2.5?) and 3 (3.5?) bar is completely illegal, btw.

Anyhow: stainless steel crown caps for sparklers (both perlwein and the "real thing") do make sense: Keeps the product fresher and totally elminates the risk of cork taint. JFMOR: In our champagne tasting two years ago (some 80 wines) we 16% cork problems ... :-(

M.