Cork powder and granules are the major subproducts of the cork industry, one of the leading
economic activities in Portugal and other Mediterranean countries. Many applications have …

The compounds causing cork taint and the factors affecting their transmission from cork to
wine are discussed. These factors include: the solubilities of the taint compounds in wine …

This comprehensive book describes cork as a natural product, as an industrial raw-
materials, and as a wine bottle closure. From its formation in the outer bark of the cork oak …

The importance of food packaging hardly needs emphasizing since only a handful of foods
are sold in an unpackaged state. With an increasing focus on sustainability and cost …

A Semillon wine was bottled using 14 different closures: a screw‐cap type, two grades of
conventional natural cork, two 'technical cork'closures (natural cork with a synthetic …

Stir bar sorptive extraction (SBSE) coupled with gas chromatography/mass spectrometry
(GC/MS) was used to analyse wine samples for three applications: flavour and …

The literature about musty and moldy taint—the so-called cork taint—in wines is varied
because there are many different molecules involved in this wine defect. Chloroanisoles are …

Wine flavor undergoes major changes during bottle aging and can be influenced by the type
of closure. The interaction between wine, the type of closure and the external environment …

Closures have an important influence on wine quality during ageing in bottle. The increasing
diversity of wine stoppers and their effect in wine development after bottling has been a …

Preliminary investigations revealed that the proximity of Eucalyptus trees to grapevines can
directly influence the concentration of the aroma compound 1, 8-cineole present in the …