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Put a Cork In It!

September 5th 2019
Here are some great facts for wine lovers. Twelve billion corks are produced annually worldwide. These include corks and sparkling wine corks guaranteed to be free of TCA (cork taint) by the leading cork manufacturer, Amorim. Cork oak trees can be stripped of their bark only once every nine years; the bark is then turned into cork stoppers. The cork tree was officially named Portu ... read more
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Portuguese Flag Following its heyday as a world power during the 15th and 16th centuries, Portugal lost much of its wealth and status with the destruction of Lisbon in a 1755 earthquake, occupation during the Napoleonic Wars, and the independence in 1822 of Brazil a... ... read more
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