The history of Alentejo is inextricably linked with cork, a material that is the lifeblood of the Cortiçarte factory in the ...

If you love wine, you probably have wine corks around the house. Don't trash them because there are ways you can reuse those ...

Australians and New Zealanders got so fed up with the performance of the corks they were sent by the big cork producers in Portugal around the turn of the century that they moved almost wholesale to ...

The use of cork (crafted from the bark of a specific type of oak tree, Quercus suber) placed inside the neck of the wine bottle is a 350-year-old technology. This alone should be a reason to question ...

Some wine bottles use polyethylene instead — a type of plastic. This substance is non-porous, unlike actual cork from cork oaks (Quercus suber), which will allow air to flow. Although many succulents ...

Reproductive hosts are plant species that are capable of 1) supporting beetle reproduction and 2) growing the fungi that cause Fusarium dieback. Source: Eskalen, A ...

Fifteen Verget white burgundies like these and 10 more wines were served blind in pairs ... Why? A version of this article is published by the Financial Times. See also Cork v screwcap – the tasting.

John Weatherington Suber died early Thursday morning ... which was built by the late J.L. Davidson in 1914. The colossal oak tree in the front yard is over 200 years old. It is rumored that ...