Neither had plenty of attendees at a Cal Poly event Tuesday, until a team from Portugal hacked off a slab of cork from a tree at the San Luis Obispo university as part of a rare harvesting event ...
marking the first cork harvest in 30 years on campus. Revealing a striking difference between the layers, a orangish bark with a smoother texture made its debut after being hidden beneath the bumpy, ...
But top quality corks come at a price. The cork industry has taken steps to produce taint-free closures, upgrading harvesting and cleaning methods and introducing innovative agglomerated corks ...