Cork with Carlos de Jesus
GuildSomm Podcast
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The Next Big Thing in the Development of Cork in the Wine Industry?
Cork was developed in the 1960s by Nazar for use in aerospace. Today it is used to make wine stoppers, champagne and spirits beer and cider. Cork has a cellular structure that although 100% natural is no less sophisticated because of that. It also has a very unique elastic memory what this means is that if you compress Cork for decades when you release that pressure each one of those 800 million cells on average will immediately return back to its original size or very close to their original size.
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