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Portugal is the world’s leading producer of cork. In 2023, cork exports achieved a record value of €1.2 billion, 75 percent of which came from cork stoppers, according to APCOR, the Portuguese ...

In an article for Drinks Business, Patrick Schmitt points out that the material used to stopper a wine bottle affects the wine’s taste, its carbon footprint and the cost to operate a winery. In the ...

Cork, the humble material used for centuries to seal bottles, is a unique product not only for the way it's grown, but also for the plethora of inventive uses people have found for it — which go far ...

The application of infrared spectroscopy techniques can enhance the control of parameters that determine the cork performance in a bottle, researchers report. Cork is the main non-timber forest ...

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No one is completely sure who first came up with the idea for cork wine stoppers, though legend holds that it was the 17th-century monk Dom Pérignon. Perhaps he does deserve the credit; perhaps some ...

When I was eight years old, I foraged dinner parties collecting wine stoppers.Tiny totems of adulthood, along with Carr’s water crackers, crudités and ambient R&B, my collection was vast in quantity ...

PORTLAND, Ore. -- It's the main event in the battle over how to close a bottle of wine: Cork vs. screw cap. To some, it's a matter of style. To others, it's an issue of quality. And now, it's a ...