Why Use a Plastic Cork?

First of all, natural cork is grown in the Mediterranean region of Europe, especially in Spain and Portugal. It is harvested from the bark of oak trees, once every seven to nine years. With this puny harvesting season, and with the increase in bottled wines being produced in the world, it is easy to see by the law of provide and demand, the price of cork will rise, especially for countries that must import cork, such as New Zealand and Australia.

Some of the advantages of using a plastic cork or a synthetic cork are:

Wine Stoppers

1. The main driving force for using synthetic stoppers rather than the general stoppers, is the cheaper price. This goes back to that first rule you learn in firm class. It is called the law of provide and demand. As provide goes down and query goes up, price will rise.

Why Use a Plastic Cork?

2. Plastic stopper does not give your wine cork taint. Cork taint comes from the ordinarily used cork and will spoil the wine.

3. synthetic stoppers are easier to remove from the wine bottle. They do not fall apart like the natural stoppers sometime does.

These are some of the benefits of using plastic cork to seal wine bottles over the ordinarily used cork.

Of procedure there are some arguments for lasting to use natural cork. One such discussion is that natural cork is more environmentally cordial than plastic cork. The other discussion that wine lovers use for retaining the natural cork, is that the synthetic corks cheapens the wine.

Why Use a Plastic Cork?