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 ...

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 ...

Outside the door to one of the wine shops in our neighbourhood is a small inconspicuous box. Here you can put your cork stoppers for recycling. We do it. And many French people also, because France is ...

Cork, the humble material used for centuries to seal bottles, is a unique product not only for the way it's grown, but also for the plethora of inventive uses people have found for it — which go far ...

No one is completely sure who first came up with the idea for cork wine stoppers, though legend holds that it was the 17th-century monk Dom Pérignon. Perhaps he does deserve the credit; perhaps some ...

An independent study by PWC has shown that Amorim’s Neutrocork stopper is carbon negative, the drinks business can exclusively reveal. Amorim’s Neutrocork has a postive carbon footprint according to ...

One of the more testing challenges issued recently to 40 Portuguese researchers investigating potential new uses of cork was to discover ways of making trees grow faster. “We know this sort of thing ...

Closure maker Diam Bouchage has said its cork production now absorbs more carbon dioxide than it creates, according to the firm’s latest environmental report. A Diam closure for still wine, after the ...

Duarte Pita Dias is based in CBS News' London bureau, where he works across digital platforms and for TV broadcasts. Lisbon, Portugal — The sound of a cork popping out of the end of a bottle is known ...