In the UK, Sainsbury’s and the Co-op have drawn a line in the sand regarding FSC stoppers.Ĭlem Yates, winemaker and product technical manager for Sainsbury’s, said “own label wine accounts for one third of the wine range at Sainsbury’s and of that I would say 40% of those wines are under cork. But, he added “demand is not huge, today it’s less than 1%” de Jesus said with FSC there “could be as much as 20% more cost” and what started with single piece natural cork stoppers – the traceability and chain of custody was manageable – now includes technical stoppers and those made from cork particles such as sparkling wine stoppers.Īs recently as a couple of months ago the manufacturers of diam stoppers “applied for FSC certification, which should be available by the end of this year” said their vice president of marketing, Bruno de Saizieu. Amorim have been at the vanguard of FSC certification, but even for them it’s a tiny proportion of their total stopper production, about 10 million FSC stoppers out of 3.2 billion stoppers in total. In Spain, some 30,000 ha of mixed forests, including cork forests, have been certified.Īcross the two countries there are also some dozen cork manufacturing companies that are certified by FSC to produce FSC-certified products, for example cork stoppers. It is expected that by August this year, the FSC certified area of cork oak forests will reach 90,000ha a new FSC group certification and some new members joining existing groups.” She added “the target is to have 150,000ha certified by the end of 2012.” Vera Santos, the executive director of FSC Portugal said “Portugal has around 52, 000ha of cork oak forest FSC certified. Part of this sustainability includes forest regeneration to prevent the landscapes from eroding. The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) has been certifying Mediterranean cork forests since 2005, and by 2010 the certified area had reached nearly 72,000 ha, out of more than 2.5 mha of Mediterranean and North African cork oak landscape.Ĭertification means cork oak growers can supply to cork stopper manufacturers traceable cork planks from forests certified to adopt landscape-sustainable practices. Originally published as part of a longer article in the August 2011 issue of Drinks Business.
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