Choosing a Wine for it’s Biodiversity

This is something I’ve been meaning to post about for a while now.

Many people think having a real cork stopper in a bottle of wine is wasteful and destructive to the environment because the trees cork are harvested from are endangered, and so choosing plastic over cork protects these trees. Nothing could be further from the truth!

In fact harvesting the cork from these trees causes little or no damage, and without the demand for wine corks these trees will be removed so the land can be used for other purposes.

Wine makers don’t like real corks because a small percentage of their wines go bad, something that doesn’t happen with plastic corks or metal caps.

Choose for biodiversity! Choose for a real wine cork instead of plastic corks or screw on caps! It makes for a nicer bottle of wine too.

For more information see this article on The Star.