Cork comes from a species of oaktree. It is a renewable resource. The harvesters get to work outside in the sunshine. Plastic is a petrochemical product produced inside concrete buildings under flourescent lighting. I never came to terms with the 20th century, and now this 21st aesthetic insult. <img src="/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> I have been slowly cache'ing a modest collection of decent wines. They have corks and eventually I will buy a fancy sommallier's tool with decorker and blade to cut the foil on a long chain. It will go nicely with my mushroom hunter's knife and picnic basket Opinel. To paraphrase Charles Heston " FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS." <img src="/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" />