NEW BOTTLE TOPS; WINE MAKERS USING PLASTIC VARIETY CORK.Byline: Richard Green Richard Green may refer to:
It's a time-honored ritual: The waiter comes to your table to present a bottle of wine, then removes the cork and places it on the table for inspection. But don't be surprised if that cork isn't really cork. About 50 million bottles of wine now on the market contain plastic corks that are pulled out with a corkscrew corkscrew a deformity in which the affected part is spiraled like a corkscrew. corkscrew claw a probably heritable defect of the lateral claw, usually of the front feet, of cattle causing serious lameness. . Wineries are turning to synthetic stoppers stoppers see stopper pad. because a small percentage of the natural variety leak, crumble or leave wine with a musty taste. Many wine drinkers probably haven't even noticed the difference. ``Three-quarters of wine drinkers don't mess with the cork when we give it to them,'' said Brian Douglas, general manager of McCormick & Schmick's Seafood Restaurant in Portland. ``They seem to think, `OK, why are you leaving this thing on the table?' '' With an estimated 15 billion bottles of wine corked corked adj. 1. Sealed with or as if with a cork. 2. Tainted in flavor by an unsound cork: corked port. 3. Blackened by burnt cork. annually worldwide, the plastic stopper's potential is huge, said Marla Rosenberg, sales director for SupremeCorq, a Kent, Wash.-based plastic cork maker. SupremeCorq supplies 200 of the 2,000 wineries in the United States and has gained clients in Italy, Australia, New Zealand New Zealand (zē`lənd), island country (2005 est. pop. 4,035,000), 104,454 sq mi (270,534 sq km), in the S Pacific Ocean, over 1,000 mi (1,600 km) SE of Australia. The capital is Wellington; the largest city and leading port is Auckland. and Chile since being founded in 1993. Winemaker Joe Dobbes of Willamette Valley Vineyards Willamette Valley Vineyards is a winery located in Turner, Oregon. The winery is the leading producer of Pinot Noir in Oregon[1], and also produces Dijon clone Chardonnay and Pinot Gris. near Turner, Ore., decided to use plastic corks after discovering that up to 6 percent of his wine was tainted by cork problems. ``I really think it's the future of the industry,'' he said, ``but it's something that not everybody is going to use.'' |
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