This Is Where Your Wine Corks Come From
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- Опубліковано 21 вер 2024
- Uncorking a bottle of wine after a long day is one of the few true pleasures in life. But ever wonder where that small cork-aka the last thing standing between you and your favorite red-comes from? In Portugal, there’s a long and rich history of harvesting cork trees. Harvesters strip trees of their bark by hand, using a process that makes certain the tree remains alive and healthy. The method is so difficult that harvesters begin learning the trade from a young age, keeping up a skill passed down through the generations. So, the next time you kick back with a bottle of wine, give that pesky cork a second glance-its journey from bark to bottle is more surprising than you think.
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Il just watch this every 9 years and pretend the cork has grown
Cute
☺️
Set ur watches cus its ARTICLE 13 O CLOCK SOONER OR LATER
you have 8 years and 8 months left btw
@@avacado6386 thank you
When it’s 4 am and I’m watching cork videos
Me atm
4:09am
Your profile pic makes your comment a billion times better.
2 for me Rn
Baloony it's me doof
*"Through all of our generations, we take care of our trees like we take care of our sons."*
hol' up
😂
🧐🧐🧐
what you dont cut the top layer of your son off with an ax every 9 years?
@@jonathanjoestar__ only you, Mr Joestar.
@@jonathanjoestar__ I don’t know man. My father has been cutting off my skin for my whole lifespan. I thought this stuff was normal to do.
I didn't know cork was just the bark of the tree. Interesting stuff
Indeed
Oak tree specifically.
It rarely is these days. Its less expensive and higher performance to use artificial cork, as technology has finally not only caught up to, but exceeded the qualities of natural cork. It used to be invaluable as there were no man-made substances that could rival its natural qualities, but I think around the 90s already that changed, and it only gets better and better every year as refinements are made. This persists mostly for cultural and status reasons, for expensive wines where you can brag that it has natural cork in it.
DumbDuck44 K.
Bruce Wilson the cork tree...
So that’s why there are cork shops everywhere in Portugal... seriously they have everything from hats to fanny packs all made out of cork
Sour cherry scones I like cork so it’s good
As a portuguese myself i can say you are correct we do have a lot of cork shops
Yes we do lmao
We have fanny packs, Wallets, Backpacks we even have umbrellas made out of cork.
I now have the immense urge to own a cork fanny pack that I did not have before
We take care of our trees like we take care of our sons
*CuTs SoN’s SkIn OfF*
Edit: I see a lot of people saying I’m stealing this but I’m not, I just came up with the same idea.
Zaptube ZT yeeeee but they don't skin their daughters 🤣
That's called circumcision.
Is called religion
Debraval Reyes hehe yea
They don’t take care of them as their sons, they think of them as their sons
Huh! Didn’t know there were cork trees.
Am I the only one who thought Cork was made from like a process of compressing wood bits of other trees in a solution at some factory?
That's what I thought. I've learned something new today. Great stuff
Yeah me too
I love how since i'm portuguese, knowing that cork comes from TREES is just something that everyone in the entire country knows and then i see people who actually have no idea how things like these are made and how much work they actually take to obtain. (basiclly saying to any portuguese lad that cork comes from wood bits or something is the same as saying chocolate milk comes from brown cows).
Ditto👍👍
Nope
This is one of those 3:00 am videos.
Lol im watching at 3:55!
You know me
5:47 am smh
Im watching at 2:44
10,000 Subscribers With No Videos Challenge 3:42
1:38 he actually chopped a line, no miss, such precision, years of experiences
São muitos anos a virar frangos
@@rodrigosilvestre3524 os frangos do farnel são bons, mas são muito pequenos, os frangos da moçambicana são muito bons tambem, mas tão sempre muito cheios... pode me recomendar uns sitios para comer assado?
3:41 so you peel your son's skin off with an axe?
The Crazy octopus.Your a crazy octopus... but they actually do that
The foreskin
@@bearonthewall7078 Ew
I sub
@@hakerfromaw9962 Thank you sir!
When you right click a tree in Minecraft
Hahahahahaha
Visible confusion
@@idefkicabti4141 you can right click logs with an axe to strip them
@@sloopy5672 I think you need a mod for that
@@treygreen5015 nope try it yourself or watch a video
I like how I knew it was in Portugal, just by seeing their faces and being raised in Portugal, I knew it. Portugal has a lot of cork trees 🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹
Ed sadly also way too much eucalyptus trees. They destroy so much off the beautiful landscape.
@@sanalorien Yeah, in my hometown there was like 8 fires this week, that's why I always check up on them
@@o.portista 8 Fires already? That is quite a lot. Haven't really had any around here this year so far. It is pretty dry and I wonder where the rain season is staying but not that dry just yet.
@@sanalorien Your Portuguese too?
@@o.portista No. I am just living in Portugal part time.
But it is a beautiful country :)
The old country. Nothing beats their dedication to the craft and to longstanding traditions. Gorgeous orchard.
Cork is employed in bespoke shoemaking and other end uses. Bottle stoppers is one of them.
My people the Portuguese are always hard works form the mainland of corking to my homeland the azores of whale fishing in the past
@@jedimasterjoe5386 nao te esquecas da calçada portuguesa
@jaime Delgado verdade
Jedi Master Joe , Yeah you guys were hardworking colonialists too back in the day
Major General ether sarcasm or back handed complement ether way we we take pry in they because you think being a Colonists is bad but 95% were regular good hard working folk
Cork is a fun word
~~cock~~
dork
will yup
cocky dork
will i will put ma cork up ye donkey
They have the right idea we don't need machines for everything
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It's probably possible to make a machine that can do this, but I reckon the engineering and work it would take will make it a useless investment.
And we can't keep cutting trees forever
pramudya they aren’t cutting the tree
@@n1h1luss61 I'm not talking about them, I'm talking about the whole world
There is something quite wholesome about seeing production lines not hurting the environment and ensuring that trees stay healthy.
"we take care of the trees, like we take care of our sons"
Idk bout y'all but I don't get an axe an chop of my sons skin every 9 years.....
It's a Portuguese thing, you wouldn't understand it.
Yeah in portugal this is just how we treat our kids, you wouldn't understand
It is a simile. Portuguese sons have a medical condition where their foreskin is completely grown back after every 9 years. When they turn 18 years old they are not considered men until after their 3rd and final circumcision. Luckily for the sons, as society has advanced, axes are no longer considered by the Portuguese as the appropriate tool for this delicate operation.
Huh. The world is a weird place
Some purists still use the the axes, called "Pileiros", but the vast majority of these procedures are conducted in the Hospital with adequate tools.
This was pretty eye-opening. I thought that it was a bad thing to use real cork because of deforestation, but it appears to be quite sustainable when done responsibly since the trees are not actually chopped down.
Interesting stuff
Here on Portugal is crime chop that teres.... They grow slowlly and protect ower soil so we respect them a lot
Cork is Just the layer outer to the cork cambium. Removing cork exposes the cork cambium which produces the cork again in nine years.
If you cut the entire tree you'll get wood which is not cork.
@@rafaelgomes9638 What I absolutely love is that the Portuguese govt in the 20s straight up lied to everyone and said "Hey, they're "endangered" so don't chop them down, they're kind of a big deal" and people actually listened! And there's a ton of cork surplus nowadays because of that :D
Cork is absolutely awesome. It's lightweight, insulating, skidfree if it's cut, biodegradeable, completely ecofriendly (not just some buzzword bs)! Cork trees are my favourite tree.
@@chicagotypewriter2094 Nice....
@@rafaelgomes9638 it kinda sucks that the wine industry used this to claim "corks rare so we can't use it anymore" to cheap out with worse, plastic corks. How's Portugal like?
I assumed it was a factory composite made of different materials. I never knew it grew naturally on trees!
Wine stoppers are often also made from rubber or plastic. It’s not just for esthetics. They all have advantages and disadvantages compared to each other.
Monae R. That's what they want you to think Monae. That's what they want you to think to take more of your...... Monae.
They also used cork as a wall coating. but a thin layer, like wallpaper
🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
it is that also the remaining of the bark is chipped and compressed and used as champange corks
"When you are skinning your customers, you should leave some skin on to heal, so that you can skin them again."
-Nikita Khrushchev
Like sheep
a great man and a leader.
- Some skin graft surgeon somewhere
What a beautiful saying
Wow, I feel smaller seeing this, the world is such an amazingly wide open space for all of us.
True my man
Amen brother
People from Cork are very happy with this video :-)
epSos.de in Ireland?
Gian Maquiling why
@@FG-td4vs tiocfaidh ar lá
Yeah
No it wont
Fantastic! We Portuguese grow up earring about our Cork, the best in the world! And it is great to see our quality recognized. As we discovered the world centuries ago, now is the world that is discovering Portugal.
remember when you use to peel the skin off a stick as a kid?..
im definitely the only person who did that..
Kasper Dobel no your not :)
Nah you re not
No you are not
Me too
I do this for my birds so they can use it to nest
Great Big Story continues to be the best and most wholesome channel on UA-cam. Thanks again for the beautiful video!
What about the post-processing of it? How's that done
TheSnufking exactly
There is a lot that goes into it, but the most important step is the soaking process. The cork soaking process is long and hard, but the skilled workers that do it have been soaking cork their whole life. many of them come from a long line of cork soakers.
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TheSnufking
This is why "How it's made" is still the best
I think they’re just talking about where people get them (a culture thing), processing is a different story than what the title of the vid says.
This is literally tree leather, but nothing gets harmed :)
I'd say it's more like tree sheep
@@Hotshot2k4 yes
No its just “tree bark”. it’s a reason for different words.
the sound of a cork popping is the greatest sound known to man also great video
james fry ever heard a baseball getting hit with a wooden bat?
what about the sound of wet...
I think my hour receipt at work when i clock out is
Ever heard the m1 garand?
What about a zippo lighter click?
0:32 Don Pablo harvests Cork in morning and Crack at night
LMAO YOU'RE SO FUNNY HAHAHHAHAHAH HOLY SHIT!!!! Xdxdxd
Eh
Sôr Paulo ;)
The guy from narcos?
SUPER FREAK ATHLETES the typical ignorant gringo comment
0:32 yo my man Einstein came back
That's Don Pablo Escobar. Harvesting cork at day, harvesting crack at night. No wonder he's the richest criminal.
@@justintimbersaw3934
I think he meant albert
@@Fact_core you know that I'm joking, right? And you know who Pablo Escobar too, right?
My corks come from wine bottles but nice try 🧐
oatz notez and where do you suppose those corks grew?
Why, they grow on wine bottles of course, where did you think? Stop being so ignorant, get educated!
@@JulieWallis1963 woooosh
@@JulieWallis1963 r/woosh
@@PrimorisOrdo r/woosh
Lmao just wooshed two people today
My mans Paulo Tascia living the 20th century with the Champion T-Shirt 2:10
*21st
21st*
21st*
21st*
Straight OG'in
That's really amazing, i like to see how there's still people out there taking care of trees and nature.
Hard work, dedication, and a lot of patience. RESPECT +
Juston Johnson YES
This is what I want the younger generation to be. Not listening to rap and think there rap people
The trees look beautiful and majestic! I love how this doesn't harm them!
amaccoy yea but, the tree can't be cut until 9 years, that's alot of time
Somite quality over quantity
It would take several decades to get more if they cut the tree down. not to mention the extra time and effort to care for a sapling. They have done it this way for so long because it is the most efficient way.
Its amazing
You’re wrong
They scream in agony but it’s too hi-pitched
1:37 how tf does he chop so straight like dude is right on the line
Almighty_ SQUIRE practice makes perfect I suppose :D
Crimsonguard Gaming i guess 😂
Hes been doing that for years
Are you that stupid?
" São muitos anos a virar frangos "
Almighty Squire well they did start doing it when they were really young…
Proud of my country! Blessed are these lands🇵🇹🇵🇹
Love this quick look into the industry and tradition. Well done, GBS...as usual. 🍾👍
My great grandfather used to own a cork processing factory in Germany before the war and he used to find cocoons from butterflies and months in the bark and had an extensive collection of them from wherever the cork came from.
3:40 i too cut the skin off my sons
You don't have a son,I bet you don't even have a wife
Mamamosupot 2468 💯 tru
Mamamosupot 2468 and he say sons
He’s talking about foreskin
Americans cut the skin off babies
We stopped in Lisbon when in the USN and they sold cork everything. Cork wallets, hats, belts, vests, etc. You name it, cork.
I got lucky enough to walk around in a cork farm while vacationing in Portugal. Those farmers are extremely nice and their hospitality is amazing
If you ever drive in alentejo, quite high chance you will see kilometers and kilometers of cork trees.
" We take care of our trees like we take care of our sons " I too will skin my son when I become a dad.
I love this. I wish all living trees/plants/animals were treated with the same wisdom, love and respect.
This video was awesome. It's very cool to see how the way they harvest just the bark so the trees themselves remain alive and can be reharvested again and again over the years. I never knew the cork industry was a self sustaining one as the video showed.
Haha, I'm Portuguese and that accent killed me..
Actually, the first cork removal happens at tree age 14.. But that isn't quality cork, so it's still not used. After that yes, harvest happens every 9 years. So first productive harvest is 20+ years after planting.
Curiosity - the Quercus suber isn't the only plant to produce cork structures, check out the Euonymus alatus for example
Im portuguese too and he sounded russian😂😂😂
Yes I learnt that the first formed cork is called virgin cork and not at all useful.
The cork harvested 2nd is better and the 3rd best so on...
“We take care of our trees like we take care of our sons”
*Stabs and skins tree with axe*
You now that it doesnt hurt the trees its like dead skin
@@franciscojuliaofigueiroare6506
Plants don't feel pain too
This was way more environmentally friendly then i thought it would be
Wow, the things we take for granted... something as simple as a cork has so many hard working men behind it that we never consider
Ikr
When i was a kid i used to collect corks. Also Ima need a asmr of this bark chopping
this is the only channel i like to learn stuff from
Try with a bible
Pippo Da Coconut bible is fake
Your parents are fake
@@ineedtogohome7293 ur mom was real... good
Can we get 5000 subscribers with no videos? Hey
2:18 he wearing some champion
Parents: it’s just a cut
Doctors: it’s just a cut
Everyone: it’s just a cut
Cork harvesters: 3:00
The first Portuguese narrator's English is very well. I would love to have a conversation in his language for practice and to get to know him better.
Saile Acne joking right??
R. Agostinho Why would I?
Saile Acne lol
His English is abhorrently bad...
His english is not that bad but for us portuguese we feel the accent a lot, xD and it makes kinda cringy.
This is actually amazing. I have never even thought about where the cork comes from. I like these kind of videos. Thanks
Thx to all the hard working guys In the fields of Portugal I just noticed my bag of corks I had shipped to me for wine making was made by you guys.
damn that accuracy and precision, something I will never be able to master.
Don't give just yet pal 😆
they have been doing this growing up, its a skill you cant learn at college.. great respect for them to have this passion
You guys ever consider opening up a school? Learning is so fun here.
Moxie Beast ASMR It could be one of those after-school schools that are actually fun
I love after school specials Cube, you know that.
Just like irl it got shut down
wow I would have never thought the process would be half as difficult to manufacture a simple cork
Cork Oak, Quercus suber, is one of nature’s amazing renewable resources.
LOVE OF PLANTS 🌻 It’s beautiful
cork oaks are my favourite tree
Ah it looks like a super sustainable industry. I love it.
It is. Areas where this tree grows are marvelous habitats for animals. Just amazing...
This is amazing.. I'm a wine drinker. And I never thought about how corks were made. This is what quarentine does to you.. Hahah.. Broadens the mind.. Hahaha.. Mind blown!!!. Thanks for the video.. !! I'll always to make sure to make a toast for you and your family for this amazing tool.. Salud/cheers/brost!. 🍷
Dude wears Champion while harvesting cork bruh R E S P E C T
Love this channel. Smile and feeling of happiness is what sums up this channel for me personally
We take care of the trees the same way as our sons. Visiting them every 9 years
Thank you for getting me to wonder and be interested in things I take for granted or never even considered. I appreciate it [:
“We take care of our trees like how we take care of our sons”
SO WHERE’S THE BELT THEN!?
hes wearing it. ready at all times
Nah they chop them with the axe the axe is the belf
*belt
@@mattiguess8094 and we skin the kids?
plague123 yes
I wouldn’t be surprised if the workers were getting payed a very low amount for all the hard work they do.
They are very well paid because it is difficult find persons to do this job.
I recommend an episode of Anthony Bourdain (RIP) when he went to Porto (Portugal), you will learn a lot about our food.
Damn...
*That's some corky stuff...*
fidgety ant please kindly exit the main building.
Take your like and out of here you go
Good one
Corky Romano
Sir there's the door
For doing a job so time consuming, so graciously, and loving, thats earned respect
Who would've thought. One never stops learning.
Orlando Sanchez ¿Verdad? Es maravilloso.
Please get to know our cuntry, we have plenty to show, from gastronomy to culture, history, sports, a little of everything.
A romantic country with open arms.
Francisco d. S os galegos amamos Portugal, somos irmans❤️
Vizinhos e irmãos com rivalidades sim, mas saudáveis.
I have to say it’s weird that your image is a portuguese flag
Well, I put it I believe in 2016 at the time of the European football championship. Apparently It gave good luck :D
Does the bark grow back?
What a lovely way of life, I wish everything was like this.
Tree: Here come the humans to skin me alive again.
3:37 in Portugal? What a beautiful place just like a place from fairy tale
oh yes it is, its my country
André Jesus where is it?
The whole video is in Portugal. They say it in the beginning of the video. It's in Coruche, Santarém, Portugal
You saying "in Portugal" is offensive as if Portugal was just a country
Zairul Salim Yes, my friend! Portugal is a very beautiful country, and with a diverse geography. We, the Portuguese are very proud of our country and glad that after we had discovered the world, now the world is discovering us! This region, Coruche is in the fertile region of Ribatejo, but this landscape is normal all through the south of the country.
Actually incredibly cool. This is a tradition which should be respected. I'm glad machines haven't replaced them, and I hope it never does. These men are artisans, in an age that easily forgets.
3:31 looks like a sad face when it’s cut.
Also used for fishing rod handles
City of Nights..it's also used for fishing bobbers and to plug leaks in dams
The sound of the cork separating from the tree is such ASMR!! 🤤
Ah pois é, Portugal aqui a representar!!!
I was waiting to see a worker with a Ronaldo jersey 😂
No way! That's for special occasions only! National holidays and such
You gotta have an insane amount of trust in the other guy for you and him to be swinging the hatchet so closely to each other
1:09 just listen and then see them chopping the trees up with that music too
What music is this
Oh my god, the new lumber tycoon 3 looks so real, just look at the attention to detail, cant wait to play it
So inspiring, now I should start taking care of my son like this as well.
Chopping the skin and letting it grow back before chopping and peeling it off again?
This is my last day in Portugal, i really wish I found this video sooner
You still in poetigual
Corktugal*
@@Fact_core what do u think
@@Fact_core this comment was made one year ago
2:17 this man looks like courtois , Real Madrid's goalkeeper
Yeah but I don't think he has been nutmegged by messi
It seems so satisfying to be a cork harvester
You say that now. 2 weeks in and you’ll be crying it’s too hard
I said that it must be satisfying for them when they finally get like half of the trees bark of in one piece. Where in my comment did I go “ oh I bet they don’t get tired at all, that job must be so easy”???
Jesus, people here are too salty xD
This looks so fun but so physically taxing at the same time
This reminds me of Saturday Night Live's Cork Soakers skit.
Never too old to learn something new each day.
man their hacking accuracy is so damn good. Every time they hack the tree it is a perfect aim
“Humility and hot weather “
Me: come to south east Asia cause that’s what we have
This is Cutie Ringo Joy I hate hot weather
you guys have 42 to 46 degree Celsius too?
At 1:23 I love that we can see the area that has been cut and the area that is 20+ years of non-cut tree
Trees after seeing another generation: Gamora daugther of Thanos
portugal best country
Them peeling the bark off is the most satisfying thing in the world
Tree: Creates Cork to protect itself from bugs and diseases
Humans: Oh, nice cork
Tree: Am I a joke to you?