Put a Cork in It!

Did you know the there is a 99% chance the cork in your wine comes from Spain or Portugal? Humans have been using cork for nearly 5000 years. In addition to being used a bottle stopper, cork has been used to make footwear, baseball cores, fishing equipment, and in the production of textiles.

In the mid 1600’s, Dom Perignon, yes the Champagne monk, began using cork to maintain the effervescence of his Champagnes -- something cork’s oil-soaked rag predecessor could not do.

Historically, cork has been associated with expensive, high-quality wines, but in the last 30 years, alternatives to cork—like screw caps-- have ‘popped’ up all over the wine market. But our environmentally friendly, fully recyclable cork friend is here to stay. It looks like we ‘barked up the right tree’ with this one.