As much as one in fifty screw top bottles of wine could give you a nasty whiff, experts have reported. 

This is due to the screw top not allowing the wine to breathe the way a cork does, creating  sulphidisation and leading to a smell described by many as resembling rotten eggs.

The International Wine Challenge event tested 9,000 wines from around the world with screw tops and found 2.2 per cent of screw top bottles suffered from sulphidisation.

 It has also been reported that wine drinkers are more likely to detect the rotten egg smell than the smells associated with a corked wine, leading to debates about the use of screw tops until a more advanced method can be created to resolve this issue.

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