Cork trees usually don’t produce the material until their 25th birthday. Even then, the first two harvests yield relatively low-quality cork that is not acceptable for many mainstream uses.

“To Cork or Not to Cork,” published by Scribner, $26, with a foreword by Karen MacNeill. It’s available at Copia, at major bookstores and online, and soon will be available at the Napa Main ...

Specifically, with the bottles that I've purchased around Fargo-Moorhead, I've seen three different types - traditional cork, plastic synthetic cork and aluminum screw tops.

Plastic cork has been in use for little more than a decade, and screw caps for only a few years. You generally find them on bottles of inexpensive table wine -- not vins de gardes, the French term ...

Screwed? Not Cork. Today, it's a hot dish of a destination. Courtesy Fáilte Ireland The godfather of European guidebooks says skip to Cork. But Rick Steves is wrong. Ireland’s second city, home ...

FARGO - If you've had wine at home lately, you've maybe noticed there's a difference in the ways the bottles are sealed. Specifically, with the bottles that I've purchased around Fargo-Moorhead, I ...

Cork. It's not just for wine and bulletin boards LEANNE ITALIE Associated Press Jul 15, 2014 Jul 15, 2014 0 1 of 6 ...