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!

Wine corks do more than just preserve your favorite friday night beverage. They can also be used to help absorb nasty, ...

Even the most superb wine won’t last without its cork, but the quality of this renewable oaken resource has nose-dived in recent years. A new genetic study of trees that produce high- and low-quality ...

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 ...

Person holding wine cork between fingers - Jgi/jamie Grill/Getty Images The corks themselves add texture and interest wherever you use them in your décor. They fit especially well with more rustic and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Forget the 100 bottles of beer on the wall. Try 100,000 corks on the tree instead. Portugal’s 230-year-old Whistler Tree is reputed to be the largest cork oak in the world. (Yep, that’s what cork ...

A few years back we were commiserating with a winemaker about the heartbreak of aging an expensive bottle for 10 years only to discover it ruined by a tainted cork. He sympathized and sighed, “It’s ...