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What's better than a screw...cap on your wine bottle?

11.19.2008

Submitted by admin on Wed, 11/19/2008 - 9:46am.
The Bite:

A sustainable (cork)screw. Cork forests are endangered, but surprisingly, if we opt for wine with real corks instead of the newer plastic and metal caps, we'll support these forests' existence through the magic of supply and demand. Sexy.

The Benefits: 
  • Sustaining for a long time. Cork is made from stripping bark off cork oak trees without damaging the trees.
  • Putting a condom on cap production. Cork trees can live for well over 100 years and keep regrowing their bark, while new metal and plastic has to be mined and manufactured for those noncork caps.
  • Helping the birds and bees...and lynxes. Rare wildlife, such as the Iberian lynx, depend on cork oak forests for their survival.
  • Doin' it, doin' it, and doin' it well. Corks do just fine plugging wine bottles - they've done it for centuries.
Personally Speaking: 

We think it's kinda hot when our sig-Os perform the ritual of popping the cork on our wine bottles... Screw caps just ain't the same.

Wanna Try: 

It's pretty easy: Opt for wines with cork stoppers. Support FSC-certified wineries like Willamette Valley Vineyard for using cork stoppers harvested from responsibly managed forestlands.

  • Yemm & Hart - send in your used wine corks, and it'll recycle them for you.
  • Put used corks on top of the soil in your houseplant pots - they're compostable and work great as mulch. Check this blog for other crafty reuses.

Cocktail Fact

In Cork, Ireland, getting your oats is slang for doin' it.

Bang For The Bite

No need to spurn your fave, screw-topped varietal, but regularly opting for cork toppers will preserve cork forests and the wildlife that lives there, plus foresters' jobs.

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