How 40 million cork wine stoppers a day are harvested in Portugal
Feb 10, 2021, 01:57 IST
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- Half of the world's cork wine stoppers come from Portugal's cork oak trees.
- These trees are protected under Portuguese law, so they can only be harvested every nine years.
- We visit the Alentejo forests to see how the cork bark is harvested so it doesn't hurt the trees.
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