Quality | 2009.10.23
2009 Global Cork Harvest Yields Smaller but Higher Quality Crop
BENICIA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--With a combined Portuguese and Spanish harvest of 220,000 metric tons, the recently completed 2009 global cork harvest shrunk approximately 10 percent behind 2008’s production, according to Jochen Michalski, president of Cork Supply, a leading global supplier of premium natural cork wine stoppers. “Despite the drop in the total harvest, the amount of cork graded as ‘premium’ was equivalent to the 2008 harvest,” says Michalski. ̶
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