Ep 236: All About Cork with João Rui Ferreira of the Portuguese Cork Association

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🗓️ 30 June 2018

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

This week I am joined by João Rui Ferreira, the Chairman of APCOR, the Portuguese Cork Association. Established in 1956, the Portuguese Cork Association (APCOR) exists to promote natural cork and its products. We discuss everything from the environmental impacts of cork to why it's such a great closure for wine. Cork is a vital part of the wine industry and this podcast is a great way to learn about it! João is a fascinating guy!

Here are the show notes. We discuss:

The tradition and history of cork and how/why it became the preferred closure for wine?
How to make a wine cork and why corks are so unique
What makes Portugal so ideal for cork production and some of the economic impacts of cork on Portugal
The ecosystem for cork, called the montado, and why it is a model for sustainable forestry
The entire process of cork harvest to cork production!
Why cork is one of the most sustainable materials around
The grades or quality of cork
How cork benefits wine
TCA/Cork taint and why rates have declined by more than 94% in the last several decades!
Cork recycling
- Recork in the US and Canada: https://recork.org
- Recorked UK: https://recorkeduk.org
- Not a formal program in Australia, New Zealand, or Brazil! See what you can do by contacting APCOR!

Check out their YouTube Channel for great info: https://www.youtube.com/user/Apcortica

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Thanks for
0:08.0	downloading Wine for Normal People Radio.
0:10.0	It's the podcast for people who like wine,
0:12.0	but not the snobbery that goes with it.
0:14.0	I'm Elizabeth Schneider, a certified Silmaier and certified specialist of wine.
0:20.0	And I'm MC Ice, just a wine-loving normal person.
0:23.0	Before we get into this podcast, a little intro,
0:26.0	first of all, this is really a super wine dorky podcast.
0:30.6	So for those of you that love this,
0:32.4	we get into a lot of technical detail, but it's not over anybody's head or anything like that.
0:37.5	It's just really fascinating. We talk about how Cork is harvested, how it's made, the improvements in the cork industry, how
0:45.4	TCA or cork taint, the incidents is so low now and why. I feel like if you don't
0:51.5	have a picture of what cork is in the world of wine, you don't have a complete picture of wine.
0:57.6	Jo, who is just brilliant and such a nice person, I think he might sound a little bit older but just to give you
1:04.4	an idea he's about my age. His kids are the ages of my kids. We actually stayed on the
1:09.2	phone and talked afterwards because he's just such a great guy. Really nice person loves what he does. So I hope
1:15.3	that you learn a ton about Cork and that you understand the importance of it in the
1:20.2	wine industry. Before we get started, two notes.
1:23.5	One, I need to always thank our patrons on Patreon,
1:27.2	a growing community.
1:28.7	I offer wine tips, extra conversation, extra videos. It's a buck or two a month if you've got that lying
1:35.7	around and you can support the podcast, I appreciate it.
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