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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

U.S. winemakers have something to celebrate: the corks they’re popping aren’t subject to tariffs. Cork comes from the spongy ...

KCRA 3’S JASON MARKS SHOWS US HOW. THINGS ARE ALWAYS MOVING INSIDE THIS FACILITY IN BENICIA. LIKE WILLY WONKA’S FACTORY, THERE’S NO CANDY HERE BEING MADE, BUT FOR ADULTS, IT’S SOMETHING JUST AS SWEET.

If YOU’RE popping a champagne cork this Christmas or New Year, or even if you’re just enjoying a bottle of red, spare a thought for the cork before you drop it in the bin. What is it? And where does ...

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.

The cork wine stopper is synonymous with preservation – not only of the wine in the bottle, but of a way of life for cork farmers and the natural ecosystem of the forest. The process has been the same ...

) – Natural cork is one of the planet’s most versatile and useful materials. It is used to make everything from wine stoppers, to high-fashion items, to building materials. can even be found as ...

Along the riverside inside the Feather River Nature Center, there is a specimen of cork oak on the shelf. The slab of wood showing the cross section clearly reveals the cork outer bark, the stuff of ...

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 ...