As a stakeholder working alongside professional foresters for 20 years, Diam Bouchage, the world leader in technological cork closures, is investing in the long term preservation of cork resources by financing an experimental plantation of cork oak trees that spreads over more than 10 hectares.

Choosing between cork and screw cap closures can significantly impact your wine’s marketability. The best choice aligns with the type of wine, your brand identity and message and your primary packaging. When the closure reinforces those elements, it will enhance the consumer’s experience and help boost your sales. For example, if sustainability is a core value, promoting the eco-friendly aspects of natural cork can resonate well with your audience. Conversely, highlighting the practical benefits of screw caps can reinforce a brand message of innovation and modernity. “With all the industry improvements in both corks and screw caps over the past decade, the choice between them is very telling of what the winemaker desires to tell the consumer,” explains Bill Lutz, the president and owner of Waterloo Container. “When they have a fresh-tasting white and want the consumer to know this wine can be consumed young and will taste exactly as they intended, they may

New Partnership Kicks Off for the Production of ‘SD Shank’ Microgranule for Clear Spirits  (Mombaroccio, PU, 20 May 2024). Supercap closes a strategic agreement with a Portuguese ‘Best-in-Class’ cork producer and consolidates its market positioning with a new partnership for the supply of microgranule. The subject of the deal is the exclusive ‘SD Shank’, an innovative microgranule developed with a proprietary technology capable of satisfying the most stringent quality tests for so-called ‘clear spirits’. “This is a strategic choice – explains Mirco Bannini, CEO and founder of the company, now part of the Crealis Group -. This agreement, in addition to those already existing between Supercap and the main suppliers of the industry, allows us to strengthen our position in the market of microgranule and natural cork and to guarantee our customers worldwide the best service, always maintaining high quality standards”. At

Diam Bouchage, the leading manufacturer of technical cork closures for still wines, sparkling wines, and spirits, introduced new permeability options for their popular Diam 10 and Diam 30 corks at the Unified Wine & Grape Symposium. “Our closure solution is a winemaking solution,” said Dominique Tourneix, CEO Diam Bouchage, speaking at the Symposium. These new cork options allow winemakers to bottle the same wines, on the same day, with different DIAM corks depending on the objectives of aging and maturity characteristics of the wine. “Diam is a recipe with different ingredients,” explains Tourneix. “By playing with the recipe, and the proportion of the different ingredients, we can adjust the oxygen transfer through the cork structure. Sometimes you may wish to have a quicker wine evolution, and other times you may want to keep it for 30 years. Until recently, the Diam 10 and 30 range had a very tight closure, but we have developed a new recipe with

Diam is the global leader in manufacturing technical corks and known for their product performance of clean and consistent corks with control choices of ageability. Their latest innovation, Mytik Diam 10, was showcase at the Unified Wine and Grape Symposium and Francois Margot, Sales Director, Diam North America explains why it’s a significant innovation for premium sparkling wines. “Our new Mytik Diam 10 is a sparkling cork made for long aging. Of course, we always guarantee a high level of neutrality with non-detectable levels of compounds like TCA, TBA and other anysoles, and we also guarantee consistency for our whole range of corks,” says Margot. “The innovation is in the mechanical performance and oxygen management that allows us to guarantee aging for 10 years.” Diam offers technical corks for still wines ranging from Diam 2 to Diam 30 with the number indicating the aging guarantee, but the Mytik range of sparkling wine corks previously only i

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