Wine is life. Cork expands it. Noble and magical, cork and wine interact in a symbiotic relationship that has developed over the centuries. The organic features of cork make it an incomparable closure, vital to the aging process of wines and the development of their innate qualities. Every time a bottle is opened, an unbreakable bond between winemaker, wine, and consumer is created. Inside a bottle sealed with cork, a real journey starts for the wine.

It’s a binomial relationship that started thousands of years ago and was only interrupted during medieval times. Archeologists found evidence that the Egyptians used cork, and the Greeks and the Romans too, but it was Dom Pérignon, a Benedictine monk living in 17th-century France, who paved the way for an empire built on the alliance between glass (bottle) and cork (stopper). By observing nature around him, he understood that there had to be a better solution to seal wine than the wooden stoppers used at the time. They were ineffective and obsolete, playing a dubious role in the preservation of wine. So, he changed them, replacing wood by cork. And pop! A whole new world opened up before his eyes.