Fairfield, CA –  Dr. Richard Carey, owner and winemaker at Tamanend Winery, Lancaster, PA., is by nature cautious about what he uses to close the bottles of his classically-styled premium wines.   He’s chosen to use nanocork, an innovative cork wine closure from ACI Cork USA on four wines in Tamanend Winery’s premium program:  a fruit wine, a Riesling style wine, a Chardonnay style wine, and a full bodied red wine. 

      “As a research enologist as well as a professional winemaker, I’m always looking for better products for my wines.  I’ve been using Nanocork since ACI Cork USA brought it to the US market, and it’s a great product because it gives you the visual of a natural cork yet also gives you the ability to control the type of wine that you are going to put in the bottle,” says Dr. Carey, owner and winemaker at Tamanend Winery, Lancaster, PA.  “If you are trying to make a very fresh and fruity type of wine,  it’s terrific.  Like screwcap, Nanocork allows no oxygen permeability,  but the cork is something many customers prefer.  There are also no off-flavors with Nanocork. “

     Increasing numbers of winemakers are choosing Nanocork™ as their wine closure of choice because it offers a cost-effective alternative to synthetic closures and screwcap.  It is an eco-friendly means to retain fresh fruit flavours and a long finish in white, rosé, and non-reductive red wines without concern about TCA contamination. 

      Nanocork features the Bacchus barrier, a specially developed coating with an oxygen transfer barrier, which is adhered to the top and tail of an all-natural colmated cork.  “Nano” quantities of oxygen are consistently delivered to wines via the barrier coating, and this feature provides better shelf life for aromatic, fresh and delicate wines than does screw cap and plastic corks.

       Nanocork  is ideal for wines that require low oxygen transfer, and wines with a low reduction potential.   Nanocork’s oxygen permeability is the same as a high quality cork, about 0.0005 cc’s per day.  Once bonded to the cork using a highly moisture-resistant polymer, the barrier material used on nanocork is completely inert. The film material is thermoformable so it molds perfectly to cork ends, thus completely covering the curved cork edge and obviating any irregularities.

        Because nanocork closures use colmated corks, the environmental footprint for nanocork is excellent:  this product is one way to use as much as possible of the bark of the Cork oak, a completely renewable and sustainable tree.  Nanocork is a closure that is recyclable, has a low-carbon footprint compared to synthetic closures.   Other advantages of nanocork are improvement in seal between cork and bottle, elimination of ‘off’ flavors attributed to cork, strengthening of the cork end, and reduction in cork dust.    Nanocork is ready for immediate use in bottling after the shipping bag of nanocorks is opened; it is consistent from cork to cork, and nanocork requires no further treatment.

       Nanocork was developed by UK innovation company Bacchus Wine Closures in partnership with Alvaro Coelho & Irmãos (ACI), the second largest cork producer in the world. ACI has been testing this technology since 2005 both in-house and with customers before commercializing the product in late 2009.  The nanocork technology will also work well on sparkling wine corks and corks for spirits.


      For more information on Tammend Wines, contact Dr. Richard Carey at rcarey@tamanendwinery.com or call (717) 560-9463.  Tamenend Winery is located at 759 Flory Mill Rd, Lancaster, PA  17601.  For more information on Tamenend wines, visit the website http://www.tamanendwinery.com.   (717) 560-9463.
Tasting room hours: Thursday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday - Noon to 5 pm.

ABOUT OUR COMPANY:

ACI CORK USA, headquartered in Fairfield, California USA, is a subsidiary of Portuguese-headquartered Àlvaro Coelho & Irmãos, SA.  ACI, the world’s second largest producer of natural cork wine stoppers, was founded in 1996 by three brothers with over 40 years experience in the cork industry, and has grown to encompass 15 factories that support sales in every winemaking country of the world.  The company uses world class technology to produce over a billion corks annually, including its market-leading all-natural cork wine stopper, the new innovative nanocork™, and several types of “technical” corks produced via an agglomeration process: Naturtop™ (two end disc cork), Fizz™ (sparkling wine cork), and Aglica™ (produced by agglomeration of cork microgranules).  ACI also produces Bartop™ used for fortified wines such as Port, distilled spirits, vinegars and oils. After custom finishing each cork to exacting customer specifications in the modern 30,000 sq ft Fairfield CA plant, ACI CORK USA provides corks to more than 400 US and Canadian winemakers.

USA Company Contact:
Armando Andrade
 General Manager
ACI CORK USA
2870 Cordelia Road, Suite 150
Fairfield, CA 94534  USA
   sales@acicorkusa.com
   Tel:  707-426-3566  
   www.acicorkusa.com

Portuguese Company Contact:
Armando Coehlo
Vice President of International Sales

Àlvaro Coelho & Irmãos, S.A., 

AP. 56, Zona Industrial de Prime, 4536-902 Mozelos - VFR Portugal

 ArmandoCoelho@acoelhoirmaos.com

Tel.: +351 22 7478244

www.acoelhoirmaos.com

 

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Marketing Communications
San Francisco, CA

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