At Cork Supply, we have always been focused on producing the most consistent cork closure on the market, so since our founding we have developed various proprietary innovations focused on resolving issues with TCA taint.
The X100 technology is a groundbreaking innovation, proprietary and patented, unmatched in the cork closure market today. We are the first cork closure company to introduce a technology capable of performing individual and non-destructive inspection, with regards to oxygen ingress on an industrial scale. With this disruptive technology, we can correlate data captured from electromagnetic images of natural corks with categories of Oxygen Transmission Rates (OTR), effectively identifying natural corks that are oxygen outliers. This enables us to identify corks with exceptionally high oxygen transfer rates, which can be up to 10 times higher than average natural cork closure and may lead to premature wine aging. The X100 system can remove these outliers, ensuring that the remaining natural corks deliver consistent performance from bottle to bottle.
With the development of the X100, we understood that we had achieved the unthinkable with regards to consistent performance and that if combined with our sensory enhancement innovations, we would be able to produce the most consistent natural cork closure on the market. This natural cork product, that was born from three of these proprietary innovations used in concert, is called Legacy.
The Legacy natural cork represents a transformative approach to natural cork closures. Three proprietary innovations were brought together to produce the Legacy cork and are all focused on offering individual guarantees of inspection, but on different quality parameters: the X100 for physical performance in oxygen management and DS100 and DS100+ for sensory neutrality to create the most consistent natural cork product in the world.
We believe in innovation that not only transforms the wine and spirits industry, but also redefines possibilities.