Cork is not just a city in Ireland—it’s a sustainable product made from the bark of cork oak trees largely found in Portugal, Spain, and northwest Africa. Portugal accounts for around half of ...

Turning to cork for furniture seems a natural choice for many reasons. Obtained from stripping, chipping and heating the bark of cork oak trees – in a careful process that allows the tree to ...

But not everyone can pick that up. There are a number of ways a wine can be flawed (heat damage, oxidation, bacterial problems) but corkiness is caused by trichloroanisole, or TCA, a compound that can ...