Portugal is the world’s leading producer of cork. In 2023, cork exports achieved a record value of €1.2 billion, 75 percent of which came from cork stoppers, according to APCOR, the Portuguese ...

If you buy a bottle of wine with a metal screw-top or a plastic cork, you won't just be thumbing your nose at tradition. You may also be dooming the world's cork forests. That is the view of ...

Following the announcement that cork oak forests in Portugal, Spain, and Italy have become FSC-certified, WWF is calling on all cork producing countries to adopt similar measures. Rome, Italy – WWF, ...

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 ...

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 capital,” the ...

has launched a cork recycling program aimed at raising awareness of the sustainability of the Mediterranean cork forests. The Cork Re-Harvest program will collect used corks through boxes at the ...

When I was eight years old, I foraged dinner parties collecting wine stoppers.Tiny totems of adulthood, along with Carr’s water crackers, crudités and ambient R&B, my collection was vast in quantity ...

For wine drinkers, the choice is usually red or white, but you can add some green to your habit if you recycle your corks. Just ask Patrick Spencer, who previously served as a sustainability ...

My hope is that we keep innovating, finding new ways for wine to resonate with today’s consumers while strengthening the ...

Four months after deadly fires ripped through Portuguese forests and villages, Prime Minister Antonio Costa picked up a spade and planted a cork oak tree. The move was aimed at offering hope to ...

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