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2. Wine cork - Wikipedia

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   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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   History 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 ...

4. 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).

5. Why wine bottles are sealed with cork -- and why that ... - AOL

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6. That cork from your wine bottle might come from Cal ... - AOL

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   The gathered cork then is used for closures for wine and other bottled beverages. On Tuesday, May 28, 2024, Cal Poly hosted a rare demonstration of harvesting a cork oak tree that only happens ...

7. Stopper (plug) - Wikipedia

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   Stopper (plug) A jug with a cork stopper. Bung in the bunghole of a wine barrel. Cork stoppers from wine bottles. A stopper, bung, or cork is a cylindrical or conical closure used to seal a container, such as a bottle, tube, or barrel.