Cork appears still to be king, and Amorim expects it to do even better in the near future, as China and the U.S. drink up more and more higher priced wines and sparkling wine demand continues to ...

Cork is produced from trees and these are never felled. Over the course of the product's entire lifecycle, it is carbon negative overall. It can capture up to 562g of CO2 in its lifetime.

They also began promoting cork’s environmental benefits, noting that the production of cork wine stoppers is a “carbon-negative” process: The seven million acres of cork forest around the ...

Is cork helping to decarbonise the wine industry? Corticeira Amorim, the world leader in cork stoppers, explains how ...

Amorim and O-I's Helix is a screw cork and bottle system aimed at the popular premium, fast turnaround, non-sparkling table wine market. The aim is that in an era when wine now comes in boxes ...

Trees yielding cork for wine stoppers must be at least 40 years old for their virgin harvest. " [A tree] can be stripped of its cork once every 9 to 12 years without causing damage to the tree ...

Cork is an unbeatable bottle stopper. It’s compressed by machines, jabbed by wine keys, and assaulted by liquids, only to bounce back, close up the gaps, and continue to keep leftover wine at bay.

Policy Wine Cork Makers Set Out to Prove Their Stoppers Are Safe Baylen Linnekin | 3.28.2015 8:00 AM ...

The main goal if you don't have a cork or stopper is to cover and reseal the bottle. But there are other things you can do to help keep the oxygen out, too -- and no matter how it's sealed, it's ...

When you need to take your knitting supplies on the go, the last thing you want is for your handiwork to fall off the needles. What can help: sticking the sharp ends into a wine cork. The stopper ...

Wine has been around as long as man has had access to grapes. But it wasn’t until the 1800s that vintners began using corks as stoppers to wine. Prior to that, most vintners would use rags instead.

Each wine cork tells a story: A weekend in Maine, a silly party, a proposal served up with Champagne. But nothing ruins a night like wine tainted by rotten cork. Some 300 million bottles a year ...