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How Synthetic Corks are Made – Discovery Channel

May 13, 2014 – 2:05 pm

Whatever calendar you use: iCal, Google calendar or a colorful, artsy wall calendar, be sure to jot down Thursday 9:00pm to watch the television program How It’s Made.

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Will You Sign the Petition to Support the Use of 100 Percent Corks?

June 11, 2010 – 7:04 am

There is an online petition to support the use of 100 percent corks. Do you like your wine bottles with real corks, artificial corks or screw caps? Winemakers have a variety of reasonable rationales as to why they use corks or screw caps. For consumers who want to know more about the use of corks […]

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Cork Molding

February 12, 2009 – 8:46 am

My annual January project, which I worked on during February, was to turn a pantry into a wine cellar. We don’t need as much room for storage of canned goods and I do need to increase my space for wine.  So this conversion made perfect sense. I finished the walls and thought about the molding. […]

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What Do You Do with Corks?

February 11, 2009 – 8:42 am

I always keep corks from wine bottles. When I began I thought it would serve as a nice memory of the winery. However, through the years, those corks filled a container. Then filled a shoebox. These filled several shoeboxes. What do you do with your corks? Before throwing them out, I decided to make some […]

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Recycling Corks

May 10, 2008 – 1:51 am

What do you do with that cork after you open a bottle of wine? More likely than not you may just toss it into the trash. Stop! Cork is a unique nature made material. Portugal is well known for cork protection and it is in Portugal that  cork trees are protected. The cork forests are […]

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