Heads-up oenophiles and nature lovers! I certainly didn't know that the new plastic corks were endangering an ecosystem in which cork trees are at the center.
Check under the foil wrapper before you break open your next bottle of wine. No longer deemed low-class, synthetic and screw-top stoppers are replacing real cork—and threatening an entire ecosystem...
If you care about wildlife, here are four reasons to make sure you’re buying wines sealed with real cork: the Bonelli’s eagle, the Iberian lynx, the azure-winged magpie, and the Barbary deer. The long-term preservation of cork-oak forest habitat is key to these species’ survival.
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