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 ...

“If you were to put the cork back in a bottle of wine that’s half empty, you’ll see the oxygen and corks are porous,” Boin said.

How cork — the same material used to seal wine bottles — could save the planet Lisbon, Portugal — The sound of a cork popping out of the end of a bottle is known across the world. It often ...

“A cork can travel from bottle to eye in less than 0.05 seconds, making the blinking reflex ineffective,” the team, lead by the University of Cambridge’s Dr. Ethan Waisberg, wrote in the BMJ.

UC Davis, in partnership with PlumpJack Winery, aged 200 bottles of Sauvignon Blanc under natural cork, another 200 under synthetic cork, and finally 200 under screw cap.