Wine Crafted
The Alentejo in Portugal is home to two of the world's most remarkable resources flexible, adaptable, highly sustainable, perfect for our modern way of life
The Heritage of the Vinho de Talha
Wine making is an ancient craft, one that has become instinctive, second nature, ingrained through generations in the traditional wine growing regions of Europe. In times past the Roman Empire adopted giant clay amphorae, made of local clay, lined with 'pes' a natural pine resin with beeswax to age and store wine until ready to drink.
Only a handful of regions in Europe have retained this technique, and the Alentejo in central southern Portugal is Western Europe's guardian of wine making methods that have remained unchanged for over 2000 years.
Vinho de Talha, is the ultimate expression of craftsmanship, a great skill that permits spontaneous fermentation in traditions that lead to aging of the wine. The pots are sealed with a layer of olive oil and opened only on St Martin's Day, November 11th by inserting a tap from which to pour the wine. Portugal is the only country in the world with a regulated appellation designated Vinho de Talha DOC testament to the quality, provenance and storytelling of this ancient process.
Giant Talha do Vinho at a winery in Portugal
Photo by Paul La Rosa on Unsplash
Harvested in the Alentejo
Cork has the master touch
Wine producers can spend a lifetime improving the quality and bouquet of their wine. They fully understand how oxygen is so vitally important to the aroma, to the bouquet to that first 'attack' as the wine touches your tongue and as its sensation spreads across your palate.
From the moment of pressing the grape, during bottling and especially during the aging of wine in the bottle, the right cork will create the real magic. Natural cork permits micro oxidation; or the steady transfer of oxygen over time. Typically ~1mg per year, however during the first twelve months there will be an initial high release of oxygen from its cellular structure followed by a low steady state thereafter.
The conundrum is different wines need different permeability some need more oxygen, others less. If you have an everlasting memory of a special bottle of wine, thank the vintner for their expertise but thank the cork too, for its amazing properties, matching all that the grape and the wine grower set out to achieve.
Save your wine corks
Start saving your wine corks today.
As soon as you begin your collection cork's natural appeal starts to shine through.
Cork stoppers, like the cork oak they come from, naturally retain CO2. A single cork stopper is capable of absorbing up to 56.4 grams of CO2. But for a material as special as cork, this is just the beginning. Pop! The bottle has just been opened and a new journey for cork begins. (Courtesy Amorim Cork).
There are lots of ways to save used cork, they are all pleasing to the eye. Watch this space, coming soon, unique, collectable display cabinets for your cork stoppers.
We recycle cork stoppers into granules, providing a valuable, much needed resource for manufacturers in the construction industry. It is one of our most efficient insulation material and creates hardwearing attractive flooring.
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What is the Difference between Being Eco-Friendly and Being Sustainable
Thankyou for visiting this page, if you have come this far we might between us help to make our world a better place. The activities on this page are eco-friendly, together they help to reduce emission outputs of CO2 by cutting back on waste, reducing energy consumption and by repairing, repurposing items we might otherwise have disposed of.
The next step is to become sustainable and by doing so regenerate nature so that it can continue to both provide and protect, not just ourselves but our children and our grandchildren . Sustainability is the holistic perspective that we all need not just to acknowledge, but wholly buy into. If you are ready to buy in contact us for your next steps.
Walk through Bamboo in the Alentajo
Meet a unique business, one that grows bamboo in the Alentajo in central southern Portugal. They encourage you to buy your own shoots to grow at home.
We buy bamboo for our craftspeople to make cork display cabinets for you to save corks at home.
Palm Weaving from the Algarve
Palm has been woven in Loule by local craftspeople for centuries discover a range of carefully selected designs to present wine at the dinner table
We are looking for local agents throughout the UK and Europe to distribute our Bamboo and Cork Display Cabinets.
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