The cork industry is thrilled to be able to report that 'leading Australian winery' Rusden ' has announced it is giving up on screwcap closures after five years as a result of persistent quality...

Jancis recently reported here on a fascinating semi-blind comparison between cork- and screwcap-stoppered Vidal Estate Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon. I was treated to a similar tasting during this...

In the light of yesterday's article in The Observer (or Sunday Guardian , as we must get used to calling it) about natural corks and the alternatives, I thought you might be...

François Audouze, Paris-based organiser of www.wine-dinners.com , is seen here at the Clos de Tart tasting demonstrating his own special way of extracting particularly old corks. He was...

The battles in the closure universe over TCA-derived cork taint and oxygen transmission rates are still being waged, with a good deal of research in full swing, but natural cork (close up of...

Filipe da Mota Neves worked for the Portuguese trade office in London promoting Portuguese wines and ports very successfully (as I observed in Portugal – how to convince the rest of the...

In the 1990s I went to take a look at Amorim in Portugal , the world’s pre-eminent cork supplier. On the way to one of their cork processing plants my host anxiously discussed the weather...

The world's leading cork producer Amorim of Portugal has sent out a summary of the company’s first annual Sustainability Report for anyone not wanting to plough through all 86 pages of it...

Michael A Green: A cork producer could have a few mutts running around on site - heaven knows, Spain and Portugal...

John Ward, USA: You have written eloquently on the subject...

Victoria, UK: I feel you may have answered this many times before but if so can't find where...is...

Andrew Dawson, UK: Another question, I have been advised that where you have, in a young wine,...

I recently tasted vintages 1995-2000 of the truly excellent Cabernet Sauvignon from Moss Wood in Margaret River, Western Australia and noticed that the most recent vintage was poured from a bottle...

There was an unusually fine article by Michael McCarthy on this subject in the British broadsheet The Independent on 19 June. Check it out by searching for cork on www.independent.co.uk ....

Everyone and his dog has a view on this by now. Mine is still that I find plastic corks unattractive, difficult to re-insert, silly (because they are ersatz in every way) and low-scoring on...