http://www.bkwine.com/wine_tours/wine_tours.htm --- Cork in the bottle? Interview with Carlos de Jesus, marketing and communications director from Amorim, the worldâs largest producer of natural cork.
There has been a lot of criticism of cork in recent years, and people arguing that other type of stoppers are better: screw caps, plastic corks etc. Is cork a bad material to close bottles with? Is it better always to use screw caps? Is the cork the ultimate culprit for cork taint, corked wine, wine that tastes bad when opened? But perhaps "the rumour of my death has been highly exaggerated".
Carlos argues that natural cork (from cork oak trees) is still the best bottle stopper:
Cork is the most used bottle stopper, or closure of any, used in the majority of the 16 or 17 billion bottles produced every year. In recent years Amorim has invested 53 million euros to improve the quality of the corks. They have invested in research, process improvements, training, sophisticated chemical analysis equipment, ...
