The Faux Wine Cork Industrial Complex
It’s great fun to know the origin of the things you buy. GREAT FUN. If you would like to see how wine corks are made, there is a delightful photographic guide right here! WINE CORKS. Important, vital. Natural, sustainable. An NYT piece highlighting a 2010 advertising campaign against twist-off wine bottles and synthetic corks notes—THE FAUX WINE CORK INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX—makes a good case for sticking to the the real stuff. For example, the natural cork industry employs thousands of people in Portugal alone! The highest grade ones cost 1 euro each! This is an art. I feel shame for my preference of twist-off caps. Never again.
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If you have a lotta corks, a lotta time, and a lotta desperation for attention, then this is a hilarious thing you can do: http://laxallstars.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/wine-cork-shirt.jpg
But corks can have flaws, so screw caps (Stelvin enclosures, to name the brand name preferred by many) help to keep your wine from getting corked!
Something tells me La Cersei has someone else deal with the wine corks.
Usually all the white wine I buy has screw caps, and the red wine has corks. This is because I prefer New Zealand whites, and French or Argentinian reds. I have a pretty awesome corkscrew, but still prefer screw caps because…I’m lazy? And I like that my wine has a higher chance of tasting right!