Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Most ofus toss the cork in the trash after we finish a bottle of wine. After all, who needs it? But it turns out these bottle ...

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 ...

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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 — ...

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 ...

It might be assumed that harvesting cork to cap wine bottles would harm trees and the environment. And consumers have been happy to switch to screwcaps in the belief they are both green and convenient ...