Ever seen where corks for wine bottles come from? Neither had plenty of attendees at a Cal Poly event Tuesday, until a team from Portugal hacked off a slab of cork from a tree at the San Luis Obispo ...
One subject that I receive a ton of inquiries about is all of the different closures utilized in today’s wine bottles. What are their differences? What are their advantages? It can be quite confusing.
On May 30, 2024, under the shade of the UC Davis Arboretum’s 80-plus-year-old cork oak grove, a rarely seen exhibition of cork harvesting took place. This traditional practice, unfamiliar to most ...
Why are wine bottles tall and narrow? That distinctive shape contributes to the happy marriage between cork and a bottle made tall enough to lie on its side so the wine can “breathe” through the cork ...
HOUSTON - Cork tree bark has long been used in Asia to fight inflammation. "People in China, they take this bark, they actually make a concoction out of this bark, and that concoction they drink," ...
From June to August, three rural regions across Spain are transformed into otherworldly landscapes as trees in the heart of the cork oak forest are sheared of their bark, becoming brick-red sentinels ...
Why are wine bottles tall and narrow? That distinctive shape contributes to the happy marriage between cork and a bottle made tall enough to lie on its side so the wine can “breathe” through the cork ...