Impact of closures on wine post-bottling development: A review

MA Silva, M Julien, M Jourdes, PL Teissedre - European Food Research …, 2011 - Springer
Closures have an important influence on wine quality during ageing in bottle. The increasing
diversity of wine stoppers and their effect in wine development after bottling has been a …

Cork and cork stoppers: Quality and performance

V Oliveira, H Pereira - Chemistry and Biochemistry of …, 2020 - books.google.com
Cork is a world-renowned material used for sealing wine bottles. Cork is a cellular material
with chemical inertia and a set of physical and mechanical properties that provide an …

[HTML][HTML] Differential DNA Methylation Patterns Are Related to Phellogen Origin and Quality of Quercus suber Cork

V Inacio, PM Barros, A Costa, C Roussado… - PLoS …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
DNA methylation is thought to influence Quercus suber cork quality, which is the main
constraint for its economic valorisation. However, a deep knowledge of the cytosine …

[HTML][HTML] Variation of cork porosity along the stem in harvested cork oak (Quercus suber L.) trees

A Costa, I Barbosa, C Miguel, J Graça - Annals of Forest Science, 2021 - Springer
Key message Cork porosity, due to lenticular channels, varied along the stem of Quercus
suber L. Lenticular channels' area, rather than their number, decreased upwards along the …

Influence of cork defects in the oxygen ingress through wine stoppers: Insights with X-ray tomography

V Oliveira, P Lopes, M Cabral, H Pereira - Journal of food engineering, 2015 - Elsevier
Cork may sporadically include defects of biological or external origin that will influence the
adequacy of cork to specific uses and the performance of cork products, namely of wine …

[CITATION][C] The rationale behind cork properties: a review of structure and chemistry

H Pereira - BioResources, 2015

Variation of cork quality for wine stoppers across the production regions in Portugal

A Lauw, V Oliveira, F Lopes, H Pereira - European journal of wood and …, 2018 - Springer
Cork production and technological quality were characterized following a field sampling
covering the whole area of cork oaks in Portugal (six regions), with one site per 20,000 ha of …

Intelligent visual recognition and classification of cork tiles with neural networks

A Georgieva, I Jordanov - IEEE Transactions on neural …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An intelligent machine vision system is investigated and used for pattern recognition and
classification of seven different types of cork tiles. The system includes image acquisition …

Classification modeling based on surface porosity for the grading of natural cork stoppers for quality wines

V Oliveira, S Knapic, H Pereira - Food and Bioproducts Processing, 2015 - Elsevier
The natural cork stoppers are commercially graded into quality classes according with the
homogeneity of the external surface. The underlying criteria for this classification are …

Natural variability of surface porosity of wine cork stoppers of different commercial classes

V Oliveira, S Knapic, H Pereira - OENO One, 2012 - oeno-one.eu
Aim: The aim of this study was to characterize the variability and to quantify the surface
porosity of wine cork stoppers of different quality classes. Methods and results: The porosity …