51. Wine Corks
Update: 2024-06-10
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Description
Why do we use a specific kind of tree-bark tissue to seal up 70 percent of wine bottles? Zachary Crockett takes a sniff and gives the waiter a nod.
- SOURCES:
- Carlos De Jesus, director of communications at Amorim Cork.
- RESOURCES:
- "This Ancient Material Is Displacing Plastics and Creating a Billion-Dollar Industry," by Marta Vidal (The Washington Post, 2024).
- "Troubled Times For Wine In 2023: Global Production And Consumption Shrinking," by Per and Britt Karlsson (Forbes, 2024).
- "Three Studies Take A Look At Various Wine Bottle Closure Preferences," by Thomas Pellechia (Forbes, 2019).
- "How Millennials (Almost) Killed the Wine Cork," by John Gifford (The Atlantic, 2016).
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