You can’t solve a problem on the same level that it was created. You have to rise above it to the next level.  -Albert Einstein  With the introduction of MaxClean EvolutionTM, Lafitte Cork Portugal has done just that. Natural cork closures from Lafitte undergo four levels of cork sterilization culminating with MaxClean EvolutionTM. The results are truly next level! Click here to discover more innovations from Lafitte Group.  

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