The new alternative to sealing a wine with cork which, in case you hadn't realised, is tree bark. Another alternative is to use a synthetic cork. Why?
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Generic term for a range of aromas and flavors associated with organic qualities like "barnyard," "forest floor," "merde" and "tree bark.
Once immersed in wine, fungal spores in the lenticels of natural wine corks attack chlorine compounds that were used to bleach the cork tree bark for cosmetic purposes. T.C.A.
So in general, punts are "historic relics". It's like asking why we stick tree bark into a bottle to seal it. It's tradition!
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Another alternative is to use a synthetic cork. Cork, which is tree bark, cannot be sterilised, and the fungal infections it can hold result in tainted ('corked') aromas which ruin approximately 5% of all bottles.
- Red grape commonplace in Southern France, Languedoc and the Rhone, also Spain (where it is known as Mataro) and, increasingly, California. Rich in color and extract, it often imparts earthy aromas to the wine; one common descriptor is "tree bark." ...
A late ripening red grape variety widely planted in southern France, Spain and Central California that is rich in color and extract producing dark, fruity wines that are sometimes said to have earthy bouquets, likened to tree bark.
Chlorophenols have been used as pesticides and as wood preservatives and as such are common environmental pollutants. The uptake of the minutest amounts of chlorophenol by cork tree bark during any stage of its growth, ...
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