There is no stopper in red wine. What can be substituted for?
Sealed with plastic wrap, rubber band a line on the line, not afraid of trouble, with water bottle cap to change a line, innovative use of native cork as a bottle stopper stopper, can be regarded as one of the greatest inventions ever. Cork oak trees are few in number; in a mild Mediterranean climate, people are very careful to cultivate and harvest these oak trees.
The cork has been harvested for 3000 years; today it is made of cork oak growers, such as the Fruticor. The Fruticor family has been running the cork tree business for fourth generations. The Preparatory Committee for permission to supervise the forest Fruticor, 300000 pieces of cork oak; the oak forest carefully nurtured every 16 billion bottles to provide raw materials for production of cork 12 billion; these projects for forest Iberian lynx (called Imperial Eagle) and some other rare species to create basic habitat. Native oak, as a sustainable source of economic benefits, appears to be the ideal raw material to ensure precious ripening.
There are still many people working on the use of other materials to achieve the ecological value of cork, so the birth of the stone bottle stopper. It is metallic, covered with a new England marine stone manual acquisition (access to the relevant departments permission from local rivers and beaches to collect) or other after years of water erosion and become very smooth stones. This is a very lovely idea, but stone is only a decoration on the cork, and its main material is still metal.
But there are other alternatives to the material, such as plastic and glass. Are they more eco-friendly than popular corks? Glass stoppers can be made from recycled bottles, while plastic stoppers are recycled bags or tires, so, of course, they are "green". Many companies use the rubber stopper; in the vacuum pump will bottle too much air discharged to prevent wine becomes stale when the rubber stopper is very effective. But does the use of these materials as stoppers provide the benefits of a cork like biodiversity? Not to mention, it is impossible for them to produce the benefits of cork oak trees as mentioned above, for animals and plants.
