With the number of damaged bottles on the market ranging from 5% to 10% in the last decade, corked wines have long been a serious issue for the wine industry. APCOR, the Portuguese Cork ...

As annual sales have hit records, the challenge now for the world’s biggest cork maker is ensuring it has enough supply to meet growing demand outside the drinks industry.

What they are also well known for is their use and manufacturing of the natural Cork material they earnestly harvest from Cork Oak trees. One Cork Oak can yield about 100 pounds of cork bark ...

Among his core missions has been getting winemakers and consumers to not only trust cork again, by dramatically reducing the incidence of TCA taint to near zero, but to view it as the optimal closure ...

Now there are moves to find new uses for this material. Standing under the sprawling branches of the largest cork oak tree in the world, it's obvious where The Whistler Tree gets its nickname.

CORUCHE, Portugal — The rhythmic noise of axes whacking trees echoes in the depths of the cork oak forest. But in Coruche, a rural area south of the Tagus River known as Portugal’s “cork ...

Check out the story, the videos, the map, the photo gallery and the recipes ... Last week I bought a bottle of French rosé that had a glass cork. I liked the wine but wasn’t sure about the ...

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 ...