{"id":2951,"date":"2011-06-17T21:32:46","date_gmt":"2011-06-17T21:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=2951"},"modified":"2011-06-17T21:32:46","modified_gmt":"2011-06-17T21:32:46","slug":"how-cork-is-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wine-science\/how-cork-is-made","title":{"rendered":"How cork is made"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Cork-146.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2957\" title=\"Cork 146\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Cork-146.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just posted an illustrated guide to how cork is made, on the main wineanorak site &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wineanorak.com\/corks\/howcorkismade.htm\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. It&#8217;s a very attractive substance. Such a shame about the existence of cork taint, and also the fact that cork isn&#8217;t totally consistent. But when it&#8217;s good, it can help wines age magnificently.<\/p>\n<p>In neck closures &#8211; natural cork, technical cork, synthetic cork &#8211; share one property. They have a special dynamic of oxygen transmission. For the first few months after bottling, oxygen dissolved in the body of the closure is released. After this, oxygen transmission proceeds at a uniform rate. This could be important in the way that the wine develops, and is difficult to replicate with a crown cap or screw cap liner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just posted an illustrated guide to how cork is made, on the main wineanorak site &#8211;\u00a0here. It&#8217;s a very attractive substance. Such a shame about the existence of cork taint,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[124],"class_list":["post-2951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wine-science","tag-cork"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2951"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2958,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2951\/revisions\/2958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}