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...With the nation's firefighters struggling to tame the blazes, nearby countries - from Israel to Italy - delivered manpower and equipment to help the effort. Locals fought back, too: one man doused the flames that licked his home with hundreds of liters of wine...
...deepen the connection, Viking has added new product lines. Refrigerators came along in 1996, cookware, cutlery and wine cellars in 2001 and countertop appliances in 2003. The latest innovation is a combination steam and convection oven...
Screwcap proponents would argue that cork?s unpredictability has driven this trend. Taint is part of this, but so is another factor: oxygen. A typical wine cork contains millions of air-filled cells, but because every cork is different, some winemakers think they cause inconsistent aging of the wine. Screwcaps let in less air, and since their cellular composition is man-made, adopters like Bonny Doon say the caps offer a more controlled oxidation process that allows wine to age as the winemaker intended. (Plastic corks, meanwhile, still control a larger corner of the alternative-stopper market than screwcaps...
Players in the wine industry say cork producers are delivering a better product today than they were 10 years ago. "Everybody would agree there's been an improvement," says Philip Gregan, CEO of New Zealand Wine Growers, where 90% of the domestic market is screwcapped. But, he says, business is business. "I think if the cork forests need to be protected, it's through protecting the cork forests - not forcing wine producers to buy a particular type of closure...
...cork industry, which still dominates the world wine market - cork stoppers are atop 80% of wine bottles - disagrees. Amorim's De Jesus says that because so much of the cork industry?s revenue comes from stoppers, the whole production line would break down without the stopper business. And if the industry chain breaks down, so does forest management. Amorim was the first stopper company to become FSC-certified, and the company believes that the promotion of cork as a naturally sustainable product will turn consumers onto the fact that buying their bottle of wine for dinner could leave a positive...