Use cork as planters after hollowing out larger pieces or placing smaller ones as bases for potted plants. Cork is porous, ...

This is really in so many ways, the perfect insulation, the perfect building material. It lasts forever; this pile of cork is recycled from a 50-year-old industrial cooler.

Is cork helping to decarbonise the wine industry? Corticeira Amorim, the world leader in cork stoppers, explains how ...

A millennia-old material. Cork has a long history. In 3000 B.C., it was used as fishing tackle across China, Babylon, and Persia. In the 4th century, Romans used it to warm their feet, ...

The Willamette Valley is home to countless outstanding wineries, and with all those bottles comes a tremendous number of corks, which often get tossed in the trash.

Contaminar used the material on Cork Hill House, a 650-square-meter, or 7,000-square-foot, home in Leira that was designed to blend into the landscape. “It was the first time that we worked with ...

Regardless of who created the wine cork, the invention would go on to become wildly successful: For the past 400 years, cork has been the preferred material for wine closures.

It's a more common occurrence than we care for, but one that we've just accepted as an unpleasant inevitability in wine drinking. The post What is cork taint (and what does it do to your wine)?