In this episode, MS Christopher Tanghe speaks with Carlos de Jesus of APCOR, the Portuguese cork association, to discuss the sustainability, new technologies, and future of cork closures. The insights Carlos shares build on our May conversation with Ruinart Chef de Cave Frédéric Panaïotis, who explained how cork closures are being used in Champagne for lees aging today.
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Carlos de Jesus leads the marketing and communication department at Amorim Cork, the world's leading company in the cork sector, with an annual production of around 5.8 billion closures. He has been with Amorim since 2002.
Carlos is also the operational campaign director for APCOR, the industry group that represents and promotes Portuguese cork producers.
This a great listen Chris! You mentioned you've been doing some reading about closures, do you have any to recommend? TIA
Lewis, just seeing this now so pardon the slow reply. Folks will be notified if you tag them in the question/comment by typing "@" then their name FYI. Postmodern winemaking by Clark Smith has a lot of great info and I'd also recommend reading studies done by AWRI and the Bragato Research Institute.