NAPA, Calif. (PRWEB) July 9, 2008
As part of their effort to explain the phenomenon of TCA in corks, Oeneo has developed a sensory exercise kit where different types of corks, treated differently, can be soaked and sniffed to clearly demonstrate first-hand the differences between the various methods of cleaning cork and to see if you can detect TCA in a cork. This kit can be ordered through the new website as well.
TCAfreecorks.com http://www.TCAfreecorks.com is a new website which explains Diam’s unique answer to the problem of cork taint. Visitors to the site can read the research, send for a kit to test their own aromatic prowess (can you detect TCA?), study a diagram of the TCA molecule, take a tour of the Diam plant in San Vicente De Alcantra in Estremadura, Spain, read questions & answers on the topic and read comments from wineries using Diam. There is a downloadable section so that materials such as the TCA molecule can be clearly printed out.
What’s Diam? DIAM is the only cork closure available on the international market today which has no detectable levels of TCA. Only one innovative cork producer has spent millions of euros–including building a plant dedicated to producing a specialized cork–to provide a solution to the unpredictability of conventional cork. The Diam cork is made with the proprietary Diamant process, developed over seven years; it uses super-critical carbon dioxide to ‘purify’ corks of TCA and 150 other noxious molecules. The Diamant process (shortened to Diam as the cork-product name) is a specialized adaptation of the system used to take caffeine out of coffee beans and pesticides out of rice for the food industry.
The supercritical carbon dioxide, in a state ‘between’ liquid and gas, acts as a non-toxic solvent to remove TCA molecules and other compounds–from cork granules. The cork granules are then molded into a ‘technological’ or agglomerate cork a blend of cork, micro-spheres and a food-grade binding agent.
Diam Closures USA is the Napa-based arm of the France-based firm Oeneo Bouchage. Oeneo has a full line of closures which are made using its proprietary Diamant
Oeneo Announces http://www.TCAfreecorks.com : Handy Site for Info About TCA and the Uniqueness of the DIAM Cork
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