Although plastic wine corks and metal screw-on caps have been around for a while, there is evidence for an “overwhelming preference” among consumers for traditional corks, even though they suffer from inconsistent quality resulting in “cork taint”. 

Enter the ‘Helix’, a new twistable cork concept from Portuguese cork manufacturer Amorim and US bottle maker O-I.

The new cork uses “agglomerated, or granulated, cork for the design, which they claim offers greater elasticity and reliability than standard stoppers to better protect the wine”.