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  2. Wine cork - Wikipedia

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    A French wine cork. Wine corks are a stopper used to seal wine bottles. They are typically made from cork (bark of the cork oak ), though synthetic materials can be used. Common alternative wine closures include screw caps and glass stoppers. 68 percent of all cork is produced for wine bottle stoppers.

  3. Cork (material) - Wikipedia

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    Harvesting of cork from the forests of Algeria, 1930. Cork is a natural material used by humans for over 5,000 years. It is a material whose applications have been known since antiquity, especially in floating devices and as stopper for beverages, mainly wine, whose market, from the early twentieth century, had a massive expansion, particularly due to the development of several cork based ...

  4. Quercus suber - Wikipedia

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    Quercus suber, commonly called the cork oak, is a medium-sized, evergreen oak tree in the section Quercus sect. Cerris. It is the primary source of cork for wine bottle stoppers and other uses, such as cork flooring and as the cores of cricket balls. It is native to southwest Europe and northwest Africa. In the Mediterranean basin the tree is ...

  5. History of Cork - Wikipedia

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    2006. Cork began as a monastic settlement, founded by St Finbar in the sixth century. [9] However the ancestor of the modern city was founded between 915 and 922, [10] when Viking settlers established a trading community. [11] The Viking leader Ottir Iarla is particularly associated with raiding and conquests in the province of Munster.

  6. Alternative wine closure - Wikipedia

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    Synthetic corks are made from plastic compounds designed to look and "pop" like natural cork, but without the risk of TCA contamination. Disadvantages of synthetic corks include a risk of harmful air entering a bottle after as little as 18 months, difficulty in extracting them from the bottle, and difficulty in using the cork to reseal the wine.

  7. Closure (wine bottle) - Wikipedia

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    Closure (wine bottle) Closure is a term used in the wine industry to refer to a stopper, the object used to seal a bottle and avoid harmful contact between the wine and oxygen. [1] They include: [2] alternative wine closures, such as screw caps, synthetic closures, glass closures. The choice of closure depends on issues such as the risk of cork ...

  8. Wine accessory - Wikipedia

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    A wine stopper is an essential wine accessory to close leftover wine bottles before refrigerating them. Wine stoppers are used because it is hard to put the original cork back into the bottleneck. Wine stoppers vary in shapes, sizes, and materials. The three typical types are the cork wine stopper, rubber wine stopper, and plastic wine stopper.

  9. Stopper (plug) - Wikipedia

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    A bung can be defined as "a plug or closure used to close an opening in a drum or barrel. It is called a plug when referring to a steel drum closure." [1] A glass stopper is often called a "ground glass joint" (or "joint taper"), and a cork stopper is called simply a "cork". Stoppers used for wine bottles are referred to as "corks", even when ...

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