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The World's Oldest, Largest Cork Tree - The Whistler Tree
We recently covered the (long) history of wine storage and transportation. As we discussed in that article, the glass bottles we’re so accustomed to today are only about 400 years old, despite the fact we’ve been drinking wine for 8,000 years. No glass bottle is complete without a stopper — to keep the wine inside and to keep oxygen and airborne bacteria out.