CORK STOPPERS

AMORIM & IRMÃOS, the world’s largest supplier or cork

Amorim & Irmãos is the world’s largest supplier of cork stoppers, producing over three billion units a year, and commanding a 25% share of the global market.
Believing in establishing direct relationships with all major producers, there are now Amorim sales companies and subsidiaries in every key wine producing country from old-world Europe to new world South Africa, Australia and South America.
With a new, young dynamic team in place, headed by Antonio Amorim – the fourth generation of his family to be involved – Amorim embarked on a costly 5-year plan of research and development. The aim was to eradicate all pre-cursors to TCA (chemical compound resulting from the activity of certain fungi, totally inoffensive in toxicological terms, but capable of changing the organoleptic characteristics of foodstuffs at the minutest concentrations) in cork, with a combination of preventative and curative measures.

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Natural Cork Stopper The natural cork stopper is recommended for reserve wines and those that need to age in the bottle. It satisfies the expectations of the world’s leading winemakers and most sophisticated wine lovers. It is a wholly natural product enhanced by technology, which allows the wine to age in the best possible conditions.

Twin Top® Stopper The Twin Top® stopper is a technical cork stopper that is ideal for fruity wines and is recommended for wines not intended for long bottle ageing. It retains all the beneficial properties of the natural cork stopper and satisfies the highest demands of winemakers. Comprising a granulated body and a disc of natural cork at each end, it can be used on the same bottling lines as natural cork stoppers.

Spark® Stopper The Spark® stopper has acquired a privileged status as a seal for the best Champagnes and sparkling wines. The result of intensive scientific and technological research, the Spark® stopper achieves the highest levels of physical, chemical and enological performance. It demonstrates outstanding mechanical behaviour and ease of bottling.

Neutrocork® Stopper The Neutrocork® stopper is the latest in new generation technical stoppers, a product of great structural stability. It is suitable for wines intended for early consumption, which already show a certain complexity.

T-Cork® Stopper The T-Cork® stopper is a natural cork stopper with a range of different caps in plastic, wood and other materials, designed for bottling fortified wines and spirits. It provides an efficient seal, easy manual extraction and allows for repeated re-use.

Colmated Cork Stopper A colmated cork stopper is made from more porous natural cork. These corks are treated to improve their appearance, mechanical behaviour and performance during bottling.

Agglomerated Cork Stopper The agglomerated cork stopper is ideal for wines intended for early consumption and for which price and good sealing properties are decisive factors.

Advantec® An innovative technical cork, from the world’s leading wine stopper manufacture, Advantech features all preventive and corrective anti-TCA measures, developed by Amorim, including the renowned ROSA system. Designed to be the benchmark closure for high-rotation wines, Advantech is simply unbeatable in terms of price, sensory and technical performance.

SparkOne* Spark One® stopper was created to meet the specific requirements of sparkling and carbonated wines. Spark One® is a stopper made of cork micro-particles which is a single piece: there are no disks, no separate parts, and it is completely smooth. Spark One® provides excellent mechanical performance and is extremely easy to use. Its unique structure guarantees a perfect, stress-free uncorking as the stopper never breaks, crumbles or releases particles.

Acquamark® Acquamark® cork is extracted from nature before undergoing technology-rich processing, which instils it with technically superior performance in fundamental attributes such as sealing capability and the preservation of the wine. Natural, recyclable, biodegradable and environmentally friendly, Acquamark® is a first-rate sealant with a water-based coating – made with an innovative manufacturing method that ensures the complete retention of the particles without any migration to the wine - that gives it the characteristics of a natural cork stopper at a much lower price.

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