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🗓️ 23 August 2023
⏱️ 18 minutes
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The humble wine cork, once the main way to stop a bottle of wine, had its market share decimated in the 1990’s when screw caps were favoured. However, the problem of 'corked' wine has been almost completely solved and cork is recognised as a more sustainable, if slightly less convenient material for wine makers to use.
In this episode we visit the world’s largest cork producing region in Portugal to find out more about how the cork industry has hit the good times once again. We explore which wines taste better with cork and how supermarkets are cutting down on wine packaging.
Presenter / producer: Rick Kelsey Additional reporting: Alastair Leithead Image: Cork production; Credit: Getty Images
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| 0:29.1 | There's been a lot more |
| 0:30.5 | unscrewing of wine bottles |
| 0:32.4 | than twisting a cork for many years now. |
| 0:35.4 | But cork is on a comeback. So the reasons where we moved away from |
| 0:39.7 | cork in the 1990s, you know, possibly the biggest reason why we moved away has been removed. So it does |
| 0:46.0 | feel to me like it's time for us to have another fresh look at cork as a material. |
| 0:50.0 | We're in the country that produces around half of the world's supply, Portugal. |
| 0:56.0 | Maybe it's the best paid job in agriculture and forests. |
| 1:00.3 | We create a little bit stress on it. |
| 1:03.6 | But she's used to it. |
| 1:05.7 | That's why she recovers. |
| 1:06.9 | She knows she was made for it. |
| 1:08.3 | If you don't extract coal, she will live less years. |
| 1:14.9 | Cork had its problems, yet now a big one, being corked, that taste of wet dog, has been largely solved. |
| 1:22.9 | Sustainability concerns mean demand is now growing again. |
| 1:26.7 | It's natural product. |
| 1:28.0 | Trees aren't felled for it. |
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