{"id":14702,"date":"2009-07-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-30T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/news\/index.php?startid=20090731-01n"},"modified":"2009-07-31T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-30T22:00:00","slug":"budget-whole-cork-stoppers-cheaper-than-plastics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/budget-whole-cork-stoppers-cheaper-than-plastics\/","title":{"rendered":"Budget Whole Cork Stoppers Cheaper than Plastics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Corticeira Amorim has officially launched a new cork to bridge the gap between whole cork and granulated cork wine stoppers. The Acquamark is a natural whole cork stopper with a water-based coating. The coating fills in holes and imperfections in the side of the cork to give a more even finish and improve its sealing ability.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img SRC=\"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/news-images\/20090731-01\/xmsImg.jpg\" align=\"right\" style=\"margin-left:10px;\" BORDER=\"0\" ALT=\"xmsImg.jpg\"\/>This means the Acquamark can be produced much more cheaply than Amorim&#8217;s premium whole corks, allowing it to compete with synthetic stoppers. The Acquamark can be up to 50% cheaper than plastic corks and, in some cases, can be 30% cheaper than screw caps.<\/p>\n<p>Amorim director of communication Carlos de Jesus explains that the coating ensures no loose particles can become dislodged. The coating also provides another layer of protection against TCA &#8211; the chemical that leads to the &#8220;corked&#8221; taste in wine. &#8220;It was not designed to be an anti-TCA measure, that is just a happy side-effect,&#8221; said de Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>The Acquamark is intended to offer the prestige and oxygen-ingress properties of a whole cork stopper, at a price more comparable to Amorim&#8217;s agglomerate stoppers made of cork granules. The cork has been undergoing trialling and testing over a three-year period and is already in use by a number of wineries in an outside Amorim&#8217;s native Portugal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>Corticeira Amorim has officially launched a new cork to bridge the gap between whole cork and granulated cork wine stoppers. The Acquamark is a natural<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[],"supplier":[432],"class_list":["post-14702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-amorim-group"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14702"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=14702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}