How cork — the same material used to seal wine bottles — could save the planet 06:02. Lisbon, Portugal — The sound of a cork popping out of the end of a bottle is known across the world.It ...

“Corks can deteriorate over time, leading to oxidation, and there’s always the risk of cork taint from TCA,” says Austin Bridges, the wine director at Nostrana and Enoteca Nostrana in Portland.

Natural cork, plastic or screwcap - do wine enclosures matter? Founder/CEO Jim Bernau of Willamette Valley Vineyards lays out ...

Corticeira Amorim makes some six billion cork wine bottle stoppers per year, almost all of them for export mainly to Chile, France and the United States.

“Corks can deteriorate over time, leading to oxidation, and there’s always the risk of cork taint from TCA,” says Austin Bridges, the wine director at Nostrana and Enoteca Nostrana in Portland.

From buildings to high-speed trains, Portugal’s Corticeira Amorim wants to sell cork products for uses beyond wine bottle stoppers. The plan requires drastically cutting down the time it takes ...

The Portuguese company Corticeira Amorim is the world's largest producer and distributor of cork. For 150 years, the company has expanded the Portuguese cork industry, but 20 years ago, the entire ...

MILAN, April 8, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The sustainability-focused nonprofit Cork Collective and globally-renowned architecture and design firm Rockwell Group have partnered with cork producer ...

Prized for the lightweight, elastic bark, cork oaks can also store large amounts of carbon during their long lifetimes. Now there are moves to find new uses for this material.

Ever since 2008, the dominant cork supplier Amorim has been commissioning studies to showcase cork’s sustainability attributes in comparison to those of screwcaps.

For Amorim, the list of alternative uses for cork seems endless. "It's very important for us that we use the raw material ...

Cork oak bark is prized for its lightweight, elastic qualities which makes it ideal for a number of uses including as wine stoppers (Credit: Amorim) ...