Consumers increasingly believe companies have a responsibility to protect the planet but aren’t doing enough, and they’re willing to change their buying habits to reward companies that are. These concerns are deepest among millennials — the generation wineries have been courting to replace the retiring baby boomers that a recent UK study identified as being highly favorable to wine cork stoppers over artificial closures. Cork plays a crucial role in maintaining the world’s ecological balance, fighting climate change and desertification, and sustaining biodiversity. Cork producers like Amorim help ensure that the seven million acres of cork oak forest, an integral part of one of the world’s 36 biodiversity hotspots, remain protected. For the many consumers who consciously consider sustainability metrics before buying products, these forests are crucial in delivering a negative carbon balance of -393grams CO2-equivalents to Amorim’s cork stoppers, in s

“Super-Sensory Trio Experience” at Notre Vue Estate

Educator Dr. Hoby Wedler, Winemaker Alex Holman, Chef Didier Ageorges team up Windsor, Sonoma County, July 2021 — On September 18 Notre Vue Estate has organized a “Super-Sensory Trio Experience,” where Dr. Hoby Wedler, the acclaimed “super-taster,” will, along with Notre Vue Estate winemaker Alex Holman and Didier Ageorges, Pascaline’s Executive Chef, present newly released […]

Petaluma, California – December 2020 – Scott Laboratories, the leading supplier of packaging, equipment, filtration and fermentation products for the North American wine industry, is excited to share  initial results as provided by ETS Laboratories for a validation study conducted by Scott Laboratories.   ETS Laboratories, an independent wine analysis lab headquartered in Saint Helena, performed the  analyses on corks submitted to them to evaluate Scott Labs’ proprietary cleaning process for cork  closures – a process Scott Labs has coined as “Dry-Steam” technology. The goal of the study was to  provide Scott Labs with preliminary information on the efficacy of the cleaning process based on  measuring TCA before and after the Dry-Steam treatment.   Scott Labs’ standard QC process rejects any cork bale that shows results higher than 1ppt of TCA. However, for the sake of this study, Scott Labs provided ETS

Petaluma, California – December 2020 – Scott Laboratories, the leading supplier of packaging,  equipment, filtration and fermentation products for the North American wine industry, is excited to share  initial results as provided by ETS Laboratories for a validation study conducted by Scott Laboratories.   ETS Laboratories, an independent wine analysis lab headquartered in Saint Helena, performed the  analyses on corks submitted to them to evaluate Scott Labs’ proprietary cleaning process for cork  closures – a process Scott Labs has coined as “Dry-Steam” technology. The goal of the study was to  provide Scott Labs with preliminary information on the efficacy of the cleaning process based on  measuring TCA before and after the Dry-Steam treatment.   Scott Labs’ standard QC process rejects any cork bale that shows results higher than 1ppt of TCA. However, for the sake of this study, Scott Labs prov