Portugal Makes Over 40 Million Cork Wine Stoppers a Day – Witness Their Journey, from Bark to Bottle
The process of harvesting the cork oak takes precision, years of practice, and a good axe. In the Alentejo region of Portugal, workers spend their summers delicately removing the outer layers of the trees by hand before sending them to be processed into something more recognizable: cork. Natural cork has been used in winemaking for centuries and is still the …
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