Waitrose removes plastic and foil sleeves from wine bottle necks
date:May 08, 2023
of this moth species would bore into the wine corks, causing the wine to leak, or taste musty.

Nowadays few people have wine cellars and those who do tend to keep them in much better conditions. This has meant that the sleeves have remained for purely aesthetic reasons and are no longer needed to protect wine.

The quality of corks used by the wine industry has also been dramatically improved. The bottles in our trial will be corked with a new FSC cork which has been extensively tried and test
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