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| | Screwcap - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | A screwcap is a type of closure that is gaining increasing support as an alternative to cork for sealing wine bottles. | | | Screwcaps have a much lower failure rate than cork, and in theory will allow a wine to reach the customer in perfect condition, with a minimum of bottle variation. | | | Traditionally associated in the US with extremely inexpensive jug wines or even "skid row" wines, the screwcap is making a comeback due to concern about cork taint. |
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| | cuisine.co.nz - wine - to screw or not to screw |
| | Screwcap wine seals do not introduce the risk of extraneous ‘taint’ to the wine: instead, they allow the wine to mature and develop without outside help. | | | Screwcap wine seals still allow wine to age. | | | Screwcap closures have been protecting premium food and beverages for over 30 years, but anxiety about ‘marketing issues’ has led to restricted supply of premium quality wines under screwcap. |
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http://www.cuisine.co.nz/index.cfm?pageId=14538
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| | Wine of the Week - History and Revival of Screwcaps |
| | The long skirted Stelvin screwcap was developed specifically for the wine bottle and was developed from the Stelcap design which was used on wine bottles but not specifically designed for wine bottles. | | | I haven't been able to find a reference to the first use of screwcaps on a bottle of wine but the Whisky bottle website gives some history on the use of screwcaps and whisky bottles. | | | New Zealand wines for sale on the domestic market that are sealed with a screwcap closure have gone from one in a hundred wines in 2001, to seven in ten wines in 2004. |
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http://www.wineoftheweek.com/screwcaps/history.html
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| | Popping corks: A sound bound for oblivion? |
| | Other wineries using screwcaps for at least part of their production are, among others, Fetzer, which uses them on wines exported to Europe; Sonoma-Cutrer, on some bottles of top-of-the-line chardonnay; and Murphy-Goode, an Alexander Valley winery, on its entire new line of wines called Tin Roof. | | | The Napa Valley Wine Co. is not a manufacturer of jug wine. | | | Randall Grahm, the iconoclastic California winemaker, bottled 80,000 cases of his Bonny Doon Vineyard wines in screwcap bottles last year. |
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http://www.azcentral.com/home/wine/articles/0515winecorks15.html
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| | Wine Access |
| | Screwcaps are easy to open, easy to use, keep wine fresh, and allow you to cellar bottles without fear for decades to come. | | | In the case of wine, the new screwcap isn’t the same as those used for other food and drink: it has been specially developed for protecting fine wine over an extended aging period in the bottle. | | | Still, the screwcap faces many challenges not least of which is the question of ageing fine wine under metal. |
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| | The New Zealand Screwcap Initiative |
| | Longevity of screwcaps doesn’t seem to be a problem for wine ageing. | | | Screwcaps are also known as ROTEs (for roll-on tamper evident) or by the trademark of Stelvin (a popular brand of cap made by Pechiney, a French company). | | | Screwcaps as an alternative to cork for bottling wine were born in 1959, when French company La Bouchage Mecanique introduced the Stelcap-vin as an alternative to cork. |
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http://www.wineanorak.com/new_zealand_screwcap_initiative.htm
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| | Screwcaps -- Felton Road Wines -- New Zealand Wine -- Winery in Central Otago, New Zealand |
| | Their brand name for the screwcap they make is Stelvin (vin as in wine and Stel as in…who knows?). | | | The Screwcap on a wine bottle isn't the same as those used for other food and drink: it has been specially developed for protecting fine wine over an extended aging period in the bottle. | | | There have been a number of comparative tastings now, where distinguished tasting panels have compared the same wines in cork and screwcap at various points in their development, (there are library stocks of many wines in screwcaps going back more than 20 years). |
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http://www.feltonroad.com/news/stelvin.asp
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| | PlumpJack Cafe- Sommelier Kris Harriman |
| | A lot of wines in Europe bottled in screwcap are not exported to this country due to the stigma of the closure. | | | Some traditions are great, but at the end of the day in the wine world, it's all about the quality of what's in the glass, not how it was packaged. | | | One problem comes from the fact that until fairly recently, wines finished with this closure were not very high quality to begin with, and a sign that you were becoming more sophisticated is that you had moved up to a cork finished bottle. |
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http://www.plumpjack.com/pjcafe/sommelier_notes_may04.html
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| | Screwcap Initiative - Critical & Media Comment |
| | The decision to bottle their best-selling wine under screwcap is a testament to that spirit of innovation. | | | All Villa Maria wines which received an award were sealed with a screwcap, as in fact were all trophy winning wines at the show, with the exception of the sparkling category. | | | screwcap) closures as well as an increase in the number of unoaked wines being produced. |
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http://www.screwcap.co.nz/misc/get_top_page.asp?area=8
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| | Jackson Free Press [Wine] Screwcap Renaissance |
| | With a screwcapped wine, the consumer gets an absolute guarantee that their wine will not be tainted with TCA. | | | Their wine can be stored in any position (with traditional cork, wine must be stored either upside down or on its side to keep the corks from drying out and allowing air into the bottle), and there is no need for wine opening tools or wine opening tool know-how. | | | Those opposed to the screwcap say that this form of closure will not allow for graceful long-term aging of the wine. |
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http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/comments.php?id=5219_0_8_0_C
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| | New Zealand Wine of the Week - The Screwcap Wine Seal Resource Page |
| | Once looked upon by the consumer as a sign of cheap plonk the screwcap is a 21st century evolution in wine packaging that signifies, for Australia and New Zealand at least, quality wine. | | | It's the revolution in the twist of the screwcap wine seal. | | | Screwcaps for Wine - The start of a revolution? |
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http://www.wineoftheweek.com/screwcaps.html
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| | At the Wine International tasting, mature screwcap reds, including Penfolds and Henschkes from the 1990s fared well, but there is widespread acknowledgement that winemaking may need to be adapted if wines are not to have undesirable 'reduction' characters arousing from the behaviour of sulphor dioxide in the oxygen-free environment of a screwcap bottle. | | | The renaissance of the screwcap came in 2000 when, led by Australian Winemaker of the Year and International Riesling Winemaker of the Year, Jeffrey Grosset, 14 Riesling producers in the Clare Valley collectively decided to bottle some or all of their wine using Stelvin. | | | Today one bottle in six of the wine sold by the chain is in screwcap - which means that some 18,000,000 are being uncomplainingly bought in this way, and Tesco plans to be selling half of its wine with screwcaps by the end of 2005. |
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http://www.corkwatch.com/screwcap.html
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| | Tech Tidbit -- May 2004 |
| | Screwcaps - the kind of caps that are commonly found on soda bottles throughout the world - have been used in the wine industry for many years. | | | The news in the wine industry during the past several years is the appearance of screwcaps on bottles of considerably more upscale varieties. | | | "The History and Revival of Screwcaps," by Sue Courtney, on Wine of the Week, a webzine for food and wine lovers, focusing on the wines of New Zealand. |
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http://www.alteich.com/tidbits/t050104.htm
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| | WINE BUSINESS ONLINE - News & Information for Wine Industry Professionals |
| | Tesco now has 35 wines in their premium screwcap range with more to be added in January. | | | The wine industry's resistance to change may well be misplaced as many consumers appear to be ready to buy screwcapped wines. | | | Sales of the new screwcap range that Tesco, the UK's largest supermarket and wine retailer, launched in April are currently running at an impressive 650,000 to 1.2 million bottles every four weeks. |
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http://winebusiness.com/SalesMarketing/webarticle.cfm?AID=62139&ISSUEID=62136
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| | Wines & Vines: Getting serious about screwcaps - Brief Article |
| | In late October, the UK supermarket chain Tesco advised Australian producers to use screwcaps for wines meant to be drunk within three to four years. | | | Campbell said during our meeting that he expected the U.S. market to be the most difficult for the sale of screwcap wines, largely because the wines would be identified with the cheap jug wines of past years. | | | Wineries using screwcaps included top New Zealand producers such as Kim Crawford Wines, Kumeu River Wines and Neudorf wines. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3488/is_12_82/ai_81113370
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| | Screwcap wines no longer a stigma - Wine International |
| | Attitudes are changing to wine bottles sealed with a screwcap, according to a survey conducted for Villa Maria Wines in the UK. | | | Just over 60% of respondents also said they would not be embarrassed to take a screwcap wine to a party, assuming it was a good wine, although over a quarter said it would 'depend on the party'. | | | Screwcap wines no longer a stigma - Wine International |
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http://www.wineint.com/story.asp?storyCode=1311
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| | Screwcap closures for top Bordeaux and Burgundy - Wine International |
| | In 1996, Stephen Henschke did a test screwcap bottling which compared well enough with cork-sealed wines for him now to be offering Hill of Grace with this closure. | | | Villa Maria is refusing all orders for cork, and Bonny Doon in the US has increased the number of screwcapped bottles from 80,000 to 400,000 — a figure dwarfed by the volume of such wines to be produced by E&J Gallo (under its Turning Leaf label) and its Californian neighbours Corbett Canyon and RH Phillips. | | | Also Karl-Heinz Johner is launching top-quality screwcap wines from Baden — emulating Dr Loosen in the Mosel. |
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http://www.wineint.com/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storyCode=1445
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| | StarForum :: View topic - JOURNAL: Screwcaps - The Beta Videotape of the Wine World? |
| | Richmond Grove and Vintage Cellars siezedthe ball on this one by releasing the 1998 Rieslings in screwcap as a special "Cellaring Pack", which was labelled as such, to entice people to cellar the stuff. | | | It also appears that some of the early adopters of screwcaps on white wine are pragmatists or conservative when it comes to red wine. | | | Jeffrey Grosset noted in a recent lecture that 200,000 Australian wine bottles were sealed with a screwcap during 2001 but, during 2004, that figure is expected to have risen to 200 million bottles. |
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http://www.winestar.com.au/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2026
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| | The Screwcap Solution |
| | He said the only downside to the metal screwcap was that the wine was beginning to get a "slightly rubber-like" quality after 24 months and that would have to be taken into account and dealt with by the industry. | | | They may not be as aesthetically pleasing as corks to wine connoisseurs, but researchers in Australia say metal screwcaps appear to be the best way to preserve the quality of white wine. | | | The industry-funded Australian Wine Research Institute has reported that metal screwcaps had outperformed corks or synthetic closures in helping white wine to retain sulfur dioxide, an important element in protecting against oxidation, according to a report from Reuters news service. |
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http://www.winesandvines.com/headline_07_23_01_screw.html
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| | Penfolds Koonunga Hill to Screwcap |
| | The first wines available under screwcap are new to the Koonunga Hill label — a 2004 Semillon Sauvignon Blanc and a 2002 Shiraz. | | | Koonunga Hill was introduced in 1976 with the Shiraz Cabernet as an everyday drinking wine for Penfolds lovers whose Bin and Super Premium wines were maturing in the cellar. | | | Related News - New Penfolds Koonunga Hill Wines Under Screwcap |
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http://www.penfolds.com.au/News_Events/screwcaps.html
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| | Wines & Vines: W & V survey: cork remains top stopper |
| | The good news for screwcap manufacturers and their winery clients, however, is that once consumers have sampled screwcapped wine, their acceptance of the closure increases: 72% of those who have never opened a screwcap feel the closure "cheapens the image of wine," compared with 35% of drinkers who have actually tried screwcaps (see chart). | | | Only 33% of consumers who drink wine more than once per week had purchased wine with a screwcap closure within the past three months; of those who drink wine one to three times per month, just 16% had done so. | | | And yet, as wine drinkers cherish the infinite variety of wine itself, perhaps, too, they will come to appreciate all the different packages in which it is presented. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3488/is_9_85/ai_n6245125
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| | In Portugal, Cork Makers Just Say Não to Screwcap |
| | ZARUJA, Portugal — This is a land that has seen its enemy, and he drinks red wine from a screwcap bottle. | | | When the Australian Wine Research Institute recently found that rubbery odors in bottled white wines were more notable in screwcap bottles than those with corks, for example, the cork manufacturers trumpeted the results. | | | And the plastic-cork makers echo the criticisms of natural corks, but say that wine lovers want their bottles to open with a pop, not a twist. |
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http://www.seattlecentral.org/faculty/jhubert/portugal.html
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| | Article - Put a Cork in it--Or Not |
| | At the Screwcap Initiative tastings we have tried some quite old wines under screwcap — 20-year-old Clare Valley Rieslings — the wines were developed as one would expect but evenly developed and not oxidized or corked. | | | It’s very likely most restaurants would order the screwcap version to save their staff time, guarantee no corked bottles, and keep the wine fresher by putting the cap back on the bottle after opening. | | | Start bottling ready to drink on release wines with a screwcap or synthetic instead of a real cork. |
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http://www.winesquire.com/articles/2002/jws0212.htm
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| | Duboeuf Turns To Screwcaps |
| | Around 1.5 million screwcap wines were sold during the first ten weeks of the launch, representing just under 5% of Tesco's total wine sales, which convinced Tesco to increase the number of screwcap wines available. | | | The top Beaujolais négociant and producer Georges Duboeuf and a giant association of co-operatives and growers in southeast France have become the first major French wine producers to supply the UK with screwcap wines, working through the supermarket chain Tesco. | | | The supermarket giant has also persuaded Languedoc-Roussillon based Val d'Orbieu to supply its premium 'Cuvée Mythique' wine in screwcap bottles. |
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http://www.winesandvines.com/headline_09_17_02_duboeuf.html
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| | Wines & Vines: Screwcap bottling: getting it right |
| | When the move toward screwcap production got underway, the availability of bottles for screwcaps was a problem, at least in the beginning. | | | He said there probably would not be a difference in price between the screwcap bottling and the cork bottling. | | | Burt Loughmiller at APM said he believes that the screwcap market is starting at the top, not at the bottom. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3488/is_11_84/ai_111106071
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| | Screwcap Initiative - Home |
| | All the wines that won trophies (with the exception of the method tradional) were sealed with a screwcap. | | | Latest wine bottle usage figures show a rapid increase in the proportion of New Zealand wine using screwcaps, since the introduction of screwcaps to premium New Zealand wines in May 2001. | | | Demand from informed consumers for quality packaging of wines is forcing many initially reluctant retailers, distributors and producers to provide a screwcap alternative in their premium wine ranges. |
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| | The screwcap wine seal was not an original concept. | | | For over thirty years some wines had been sealed using a screwcap closure – for the most part low cost wines, which gave rise to a perception of the screwcap being a ‘cheap’ alternative, and this led to consumer resistance. | | | After some research the concept of the screwcap wine seal was raised for closer evaluation and technical overview. |
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| | Boisset joins screwcap ranks - decanter.com - the route to all good wine |
| | 'I am eager to use screwcaps on top wines, for a change', he said, alluding to former announcements made by other producers of their using screwcaps on regional Burgundy wines. | | | 'Screwcap is our future', Boisset head winemaker Grégory Patriat said, adding that he had become a strong supporter of screwcaps after tasting a 1976 Mercurey that was sealed under screwcap and had aged very well. | | | According to Boisset's daughter Nathalie Bergès, the first batch of screwcap wines won't necessarily be followed by the group's other brands, such as La Vougeraie. |
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| | XTRAMSN: Screwcap Plant A First For NZ |
| | Now the company, producing wine screwcaps under the brand name Alvis, is the country's first and only screwcap manufacturer. | | | "80 percent of all New Zealand still wine is now bottled under screwcap, so local manufacturing, with the sole focus of supplying kiwi wineries is critical. | | | Stephan Jelicich managing director of Esvin Wine Resources Ltd says local supply of screwcaps is critical. |
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| | Death of the Cork |
| | The wines' back labels have also been re-designed and re-written to explain the adoption of the screwcap. | | | Randall Grahm's mission or message might be summed up as "long live diversity." He is a champion of lesser-known grape varieties, experimental vinification techniques, controversial packaging and an irreverent and erudite approach to winemaking and marketing. | | | This was the impetus for Pechiney's development of an organoleptically inert closure that would allow wine to age gracefully. |
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http://www.deathofthecork.com/press.html
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| | Correction: Two cases of Margaux's Pavillon in screwcap experiment - decanter.com - the route to all good wine |
| | 'I can certainly see the benefits of screwcaps for whites and would be very interested in using them for young reds that will be drunk within five years. | | | Correction: Two cases of Margaux's Pavillon in screwcap experiment - decanter.com - the route to all good wine | | | Pontallier is putting two cases of the 2002 vintage of Margaux's second wine Pavillon Rouge under screwcap as part of an experiment into the two different closures, natural cork and screwcap. |
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http://www.decanter.com/news/56468.html
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| | The WineFairy Guest Archvies |
| | David Forsyth, Director of Winemaking, and Jordan Ferrier, Research Enologist, on The Hogue Cellars 2004 fruit-forward wines in Stelvin screwcap with Saranax liners versus synthetic and natural cork. | | | Jeff Kunde, of Kunde Winery and Vineyards, shares the family’s 100-year history of growing grapes, more recently turned wine-growers, outside of Kenwood, in Sonoma; on the web at www.kunde.com. | | | Barry Bergman, Winemaker for R.H. Phillips winery of Esparto, California will share his expertise on recent research comparing natural cork to plastic cork to screwcap on the quality of finished wines. |
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http://www.winefairy.com/guest_archives.htm
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| | Wine Writing |
| | I’ve had both magnificent and absolutely dreadful wine sealed under both corks and screwcaps. | | | I've reproduced it here with Paul's kind permission to offer a different view on this news item I posted on 16/11/04: New Zealand takes lead in screwcaps as wine closures | | | Evidence increasingly suggests that they are as potentially faulty, albeit from a different set of faults, as either corks or synthetic stoppers. |
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http://www.winewriting.com/FAQS/xtraPages.asp?KC=7&FP=37&PG=arg
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| | US: Screwcap acceptance on the up - research : Beverage News |
| | While US wine consumers still prefer traditional cork, there is growing acceptance of screwcap closures, particularly among frequent wine drinkers and those who have already tried screwcap bottles, according to research out today. | | | US: Screwcap acceptance on the up - research : Beverage News | | | US: Screwcap acceptance on the up - research |
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http://www.just-drinks.com/news_detail.asp?art=23943
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| | medmusings: wine Archives |
| | In its July 2003 report, the FTC characterized state shipping bans as “
the single largest regulatory barrier to expanded e-commerce in wine,” and that they “prevent consumers from saving as much as 21 percent on some wines and from conveniently purchasing many popular wines from suppliers around the country.” | | | I was in the DEWN club for my dot com years, and enjoyed their crazy anything-but-usual-varietals like macho nacho syrah, madiran heart of darkness, clos du gilroy, framboise, vin de glaciere, cardinal zin (which you can even get at costco now), big house red (now with screwcap) and many others. | | | Always full bodied and big flavored, and a great place to visit off of ice cream grade & HWY1. |
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