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On Site Corks Bins will Promote Recycling

—For the second consecutive year, natural cork will be in the spotlight at the GRAMMY Awards.® Maintaining its commitment to sustainability, the 54th GRAMMY Awards will host two events featuring wines sealed exclusively with natural cork and will recycle the closures. Natural cork is biodegradable, recyclable and sustainable, and its use encourages the stewardship of cork oak forests that offset carbon pollution.

The awards show will take place at STAPLES Center in Los Angeles and will air on CBS at 8/7 p.m.…

Finding out what’s under the foil just got a lot easier.  Now when cork lovers shop their favorite wine aisle they can employ the new CorkWatch App on their smart phones or tablets to ensure the wine they purchase is sealed with the real deal.

The app, developed by the Cork Quality Council and ReCork, allows users to search a database of more than 1,700 wines that identifies which ones are sealed with natural cork.  Users can also enter the names of new wines into a database and indicate the type of closure by brand and varietal.

The…

New International Guidelines Encourage Wineries to Take Cork Forests Into Consideration When Calculating Carbon Footprint

Cork Provides Net Reduction in CO2 Emissions

NEW YORK, Dec. 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/—Winemakers who want to lighten their carbon footprint have yet another reason to seal their wine with natural cork, 100% Cork announced today.

The International Organisation of Vine and Wine (OIV) is now encouraging wineries to consider the carbon offset value of cork forests when calculating the Greenhouse Gas Score of cork closures. The OIV recently announced the new protocol, once again making carbon sequestration a relevant environmental issue that continues…

Wine with Cork Preferred for Gifts, Dinner Parties, Special Occasions

Half of Respondents Say Screw-caps Convey Low Quality Wine

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., Dec. 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/—Natural cork remains the overwhelming choice for U.S. wine drinkers because it conveys higher quality than alternative closures, according to a recent survey by Tragon Corp., the Company announced today.

According to the survey, 94 percent of respondents said they would be more likely to purchase wine with natural cork.  A nearly equal number, 93 percent, said that natural cork conveys high or very high quality.

“These results are remarkable because we…

NAPA, Calif.  – More than 60 percent of the top 100 domestic premium wine brands are now sealed with natural cork, another sign of the growing resurgence of cork and the diminishing use and acceptance of alternative closures.

Case sales of the top 100 domestic premium wine brands sealed with cork surged 7.7 percent during the four-weeks ended Sept. 17, 2011, compared to the same period a year earlier. During the same period, the sale of the top 100 brands finished with alternative closures plummeted 11.9 percent. The results are from a survey of A.C. Nielsen data by…

100% Cork today announced that its campaign to educate wine consumers about the technical, social and environmental benefits of natural cork wine closures has achieved a number of significant milestones during its first year.

•The campaign’s Facebook page has surpassed 50,000 fans to become one of the top wine-related social media communities.
•Coverage of the 100% Cork campaign by the media has exceeded 60 million in circulation.
•Advertisements in The New York Times, on National Public Radio and the in Natural Resource Defense Council’s On Earth magazine have reached millions more.
•Videos produced by the…