No one is completely sure who first came up with the idea for cork wine stoppers, though legend holds ... it’s also found naturally in wood, water, soil, fruit and vegetables.

Amorim, which makes two thirds of the world’s cork stoppers, claims that TCA occurs in less than 1 percent of its natural corks ... planks into piles 10 feet high and 100 yards long. The wood that ...

But many who've taken part in the simple ritual may not realize that it's also a synonym for sustainability, natural wonder ... the ubiquitous bottle stoppers. Cork is used in everything from ...

Is that jar full of wine corks overflowing? Don't add them to the landfill: If they're the right kind, they're a great brown ...

the world's second-largest producer of cork and cork-based stoppers, has sold its inventory of natural cork, its cork-making subsidiary Sabaté Maroc and a Spanish processing plant. The buyer, whose ...

In the U.S., approximately 65 percent of wine bottles are plugged with natural cork stoppers, which come from cork oak trees in the Mediterranean. The 400-year-old corking practice includes ...

Since 2011 the British furniture brand has mastered its independent style in crafting contemporary furniture from concrete, wood and hot-rolled ... to construct ‘Tejo’ from cork waste from the ...

Importantly, the cork oak forests found in Portugal also provide a habitat for thousands of important animal, bird and insect species. Researchers found a natural ... of a cork stoppers can ...

Second is the agglomerated cork, made of fragments of ground-up cork bound together, either by the bark's natural resins, released by heating, or with some added adhesive. Thirdly there are ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Experienced independent writer with a background in the wine industry. In an article for Drinks Business, Patrick Schmitt ...

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 ...