Corking!

[Mark Bolam]

Came across this pic in a posh magazine in my local.

 

At first I thought it was MonkeyD and his gang trying to fell a tree in some strange experimental fashion, but no.

 

They are harvesting cork. Apparently, the trees can live for over 200 years and provide over 20 'crops'.

 

Makes me wonder if I've been a tad hasty in the past condemning trees with a bit of rabbit damage!

[Dean Lofthouse]

It actually looks like Mick Stockbridge

[Graham]

An industry in decline now we all drink wine from screw top bottles.

 

A shame because the 'dehesa' pasture woodland of Spain is the most fantastic place I've ever been

 

[john dawson]

corking post grommit!!

[Stephen Blair]

and they worry about a couple of little spike marks, lol

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

and they worry about a couple of little spike marks, lol

 

OH SWB knows how to press my buttons!

 

Yes we bitch about spike marks!

 

corking GOOD spikes BAD!

[Stephen Blair]

spike spike spikety spike:lol:

[David Humphries]

Had a guy on the gang a couple of years back that was from Portugal.

His father owned a bit of land that had harvested Cork Oak.

 

Like Olives, some of these forests go back long generations.

The advent of both screw top & plastic corks aren't just killing the ecology that depend on suber within that dynamic, but is also killing tradition and sustainable family orientated buisness.

 

Great shame.

 

I try and steer away from anything that doesn't have a real cork in it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

& that does look a lot like Stockers !

 

 

 

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Had a guy on the gang a couple of years back that was from Portugal.

His father owned a bit of land that had harvested Cork Oak.

 

Like Olives, some of these forests go back long generations.

The advent of both screw top & plastic corks aren't just killing the ecology that depend on suber within that dynamic, but is also killing tradition and sustainable family orientated buisness.

 

Great shame.

 

I try and steer away from anything that doesn't have a real cork in it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

& that does look a lot like Stockers !

 

 

 

 

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With the amount of vino drunk between arbtalkers we could generate a trend back to old skool corks!

 

all those in favour of boycotting anything without the real Mackoy say Iye!

[Stephen Blair]

spikes and screw tops for me tony:lol: