The cork producer Amorim recently set its sites on eventually completely eliminating cork taint, which can cause off and musty flavors in wine, in natural cork stoppers by 2020. Ironically, lower ...

Is cork helping to decarbonise the wine industry? Corticeira Amorim, the world leader in cork stoppers, explains how ...

Amorim Cork produces more than five billion of the approximately 13 billion cork bottle stoppers produced annually across the globe. It's enough to give the family firm comfortable supremacy in ...

Of the 18 billion wine closures produced annually worldwide, 69 percent are natural or agglomerate cork, 20 percent synthetic stoppers and 11 percent screw caps, according to estimates by ...

Any cork that is not used for stoppers is repurposed into other applications, from flooring and insulation to advanced materials for industries like aerospace. This approach allows us to operate ...

French defenders of natural wine corks have launched a multi-million pound offensive to counter the rise of the screw cap and plastic stopper, which they argue kill the mystique of bottle-opening.

PORTLAND, Ore. -- It's the main event in the battle over how to close a bottle of wine: Cork vs. screw cap. To some, it's a matter of style. To others, it's an issue of quality. And now, it's a ...