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2. Wine cork - Wikipedia

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   A French wine cork. A wine corks is a stopper used to seal a wine bottle. 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. Mounted corkscrew - Wikipedia

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   A wall-mounted corkscrew. The screw enters the cork below. When the lever is lifted, the screw is pulled directly up, and then unscrewed from the cork. The freed cork falls out of the hole on the side. Until many years after the invention in 1892 [4] of crown corks, beer bottles were stopped with corks. The increasing popularity of bottled beer ...

4. Closure (wine bottle) - Wikipedia

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   Synthetic corks for bottles A bottle of wine with an "easy open, easy recork" closure. 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] Traditional natural cork closures ('corks');

5. Alternative wine closure - Wikipedia

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   Alternative wine closures are substitute closures used in the wine industry for sealing wine bottles in place of traditional cork closures. The emergence of these alternatives has grown in response to quality control efforts by winemakers to protect against " cork taint " caused by the presence of the chemical trichloroanisole (TCA).

6. Costco Dilemma: What the Heck Do You Do With Those ... - AOL

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   Condiment Cups. This one's pretty obvious, but it's something that everyone would find helpful. "We use them as condiment holders for large gatherings like with dip and such," said u/Ellecatat.

7. Screw cap (wine) - Wikipedia

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   A layer of plastic (often PVDC), cork, rubber, or other soft material is used as wad to make a seal with the mouth of the bottle. Its use as an alternative to cork for sealing wine bottles is gaining increasing support. In markets such as Australia and New Zealand screw caps on bottles have overtaken cork to become the most common means of ...

8. 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 ...

9. Stopper (plug) - Wikipedia

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   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 made from another material. [citation needed] A common every-day example of a stopper is the cork of a wine bottle.