“Believe me, I've seen some interesting things get shoved into wine bottles when corks accidentally get thrown away or don't fit,” says Kaye Askins, owner of Best Little Wine and Books, a wine bar and ...
Making wine bottle stoppers, however, remains the main activity for Portugal's cork industry, which employs around 8,000 people. Corticeira Amorim makes some six billion cork wine bottle stoppers ...
Portugal, the world's leading cork producer, is finding new uses for the material, from footwear to furniture, as demand for wine bottle stoppers wanes. Producers highlight the environmentally ...