The Observer on corks continued

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 interested in the email interview below that underlay how I was quoted in the article by the Observer journalist Lucy Siegle, a specialist in environmental and ethical issues, pictured here.

One thing I did not mention this time around is that total global demand for wine stoppers has been increasing enormously as a higher and higher proportion of wine is now sold in bottle rather than, as...