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Wine, corks and ecosystems

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The Ecologist

Publication Date
2020-02-17

Ten years ago there seemed to be a huge shift away from corks and towards screw-caps. One reason for this is wine taint, or what many refer to as 'corked' wine, where a bacteria - Trichloroanisol - gives wine a damp cardboard aroma and destroys the wine's pleasurable characteristics.

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https://theecologist.org/2020/feb/17/wine-corks-co2-sink