Ever seen where corks for wine bottles come from? Neither had plenty of attendees at a Cal Poly event Tuesday, until a team from Portugal hacked off a slab of cork from a tree at the San Luis Obispo ...

Look all around, out your front door, back yard, back roads and highways, the trees are alive. Next time you open a bottle of wine, it will most likely have a cork stopper. Corks are made from trees!

The cork wine stopper is synonymous with preservation – not only of the wine in the bottle, but of a way of life for cork farmers and the natural ecosystem of the forest. The process has been the same ...

Natural wine corks are compostable after removing any metal foil and other materials. To speed up the decomposition process, the corks should be chopped up. Corks are brown composting material; add ...

"I love the romance of it." That's the rationale I hear most often, when consumers talk about pulling the cork from a bottle of wine. It's part history, part ritual, part resistance to synthetic ...

When you drink wine, everyday is basically Christmas. That liquid magic is one of the greatest gifts you can enjoy year-round, but it can also be incorporated in the actual Christmas holiday if you're ...