Each spring and summer, cork harvest season begins across Portugal, marking a highly anticipated moment that brings renewed ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Which is the better stopper for wine bottles, cork or screwcap? The fierce debate on this topic that raged in ...

Outside the door to one of the wine shops in our neighbourhood is a small inconspicuous box. Here you can put your cork stoppers for recycling. We do it. And many French people also, because France is ...

There is nothing new about using cork as an insulating material; Fridtjof Nansen lined the Fram with a foot thick layer of the stuff, and almost got to the North Pole in it, while Amundsen used the ...

It was only about two decades ago that one wine bottle closure — the natural cork — was the choice for wine producers and consumers. We know by now why that became a problem, but in case you forget, ...

Designer Paul Crofts and furniture brand Isomi aimed to make sofas less wasteful with Tejo, a recyclable system created from natural cork and latex that is launching at Clerkenwell Design Week. The ...

If you are involved in the creative community, you will have noticed the slowly-but-surely growing preponderance of cork as a material used in design. Just in the past few months, my boyfriend bought ...