Nearly half of the world's cork wine stoppers come from Portugal

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2024-04-29 13:04:15

portugal produces about half of the world's cork wine stoppers

most come from these trees

but artists in a tree takes years of expertise and steady hands

every summer harvesters peel off the bark using century old techniques

we can address the bark of the tree without damaging the bark so desales can grow

again without turning back into life of the tree

because the trees regenerate they'll never run out of cork

today portugal harvest a hundred thousand tons of cork every year

after the cork planks are stripped from the trees they're pressed between concrete slabs for six months

then they're sent to a processing facility to be boiled for at least an hour this machine punches out the stoppers we see in our wine bottles

in twenty eighteen portugal pastor record billion dollars worth of cork exports

but even as cork demand continues to grow

harvesters plan to keep doing things the same way they always have

with a good axe

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