Amorim Cork produces more than five billion of the approximately 13 billion cork bottle stoppers produced annually across the ...

There will be a tiny percentage of detectably tainted corks, and for the higher price paid for cork, wine producers will be covered for their tiny losses. Another problem with bottle stoppers ...

The average wine bottle has a carbon footprint in terms of production of 1200g. Consequently, the use of a cork stoppers can reduce this by a quarter in a still wine, and nearly half in a ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Which is the preferable wine-bottle stopper, cork or screwcap? On aesthetic grounds, cork must win every time.

The high-pressured bottle stoppers help maintain the hallmark fizz of the celebratory drink — with the capacity to ruin any party as the cork catapults from its vessel at up to nearly 50 miles ...

glass was the second most common material used for bottle stoppers after cork. The earliest known stoppers were manufactured out of straw, rags, leather, clay, or wood and date as far back as 1500 ...

This initiative paves the way for a truly circular economy of natural cork that repurposes stoppers into materials that can keep significant amounts of CO2—retained only by real cork stoppers ...