Or, if you don’t want to reuse the corks you have, consider recycling withReCORK—listen to our interview with founder Mike Baker. Cheers, crafters! Feature image courtesy ofChristina B Castro Editor’s note:Originally published onMarch 26, 2015, this article was updated in January 2025. ...
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Innovation in alternatives is happening. As Harvey notes: "Stelvin screw caps caught on and that had quality benefits as well. You could argue that cork is part of the whole wine package but we quite happily went to Stelvins eventually, so there's hope." ...
"I have a big cellar myself, and the first thing I do before I lay a bottle down is rip off that foil," he says. "Without the foil, you can see if there's an issue with the cork, you can see if there's seepage." Aesthetic choice ...
We made some more purchases, then headed back to Lyon through rush-hour traffic (called abouchon, or a cork in a bottleneck, in France). In the future, we plan more exploration of this amazing region. Even though it is small, there is more to cover than you can do in a day. And...
It would be easy to think of cork just this way — a medieval product made using industrial revolution technology — but this viewpoint misses a lot as we learned when we visited Amorim’s second factory near Porto. Here we saw many of the same processes as in the south, but the focus...
Whenever someone offers me a regular scotch ale I am usually like “hey if I wanted the taste of pennies, stale alcohol and blood, I will just go work at the recycling center.” Somehow, through the magic of oak and time, barrel aging scotch ales makes them actually drinkable. However,...
I know never to take a wine for granted. Drawing a cork is like attendance at a concert or at a play that one knows well, when there is all the uncertainty of no two performances ever being quite the same. That is why the French say, 'There are no good wines, only good bottles....
The sun is setting and a slight mist in the air, the anticipation of the first cork being pulled is palpable. Cuetape rewind… Introducing, the2016 Steamboat Wine Festival. Steamboat Springs, COcould be the quintessential town displaying the culmination of the Old West and Contemporary Resort Li...