Ahhhh. I must say that I love a good bottle of wine that has it's yummy essence sealed with cork. However, it can be a bit frustrating at times to get said cork back into the bottle. For that, I prefer a stainless steel stopper. ....or just polish off the bottle!!!!!

Do not fear that we will run out of cork! There is enough in the forests of Spain and Portugal to last 100 years.

And then of course, there is the composite cork, that gets stuck on your corkscrew, not to mention the screw top for when you just cannot wait the added minute it takes to remove the cork before partaking of that special liquid refreshment.

Did you know?

1) That in 3000 BC, cork was already being used in fishing tackle in China?

2) That 4th Century BC women's Italian footwear contained cork?

3) That 13th Century Portugal pioneered environmental legislation protecting cork forests? And we thought our generation invented "Green"!!!!!