Twenty years ago the cork oaks that surround the perimeter of our facilities were planted and this is the first year that they have borne fruit, ‘the acorns’. As you can see in the photos, they are not yet ripe. From a nutritional point of view, it is a dried fruit made up of carbohydrates...Read More

Indeed, it was 7:00 pm on June 17, when the first cork lorry of this campaign entered our facilities, being its origin from the Sierra de San Pedro. We are confident that, in the next 45 days, everything will proceed normally and we will not have accidents (of any kind) and, at the end of...Read More

As you will remember, a few days ago I gave you my opinion on why “things are almost never by chance” and today I have the opportunity to demonstrate one more example of this reality. If you check the location of the farms mentioned in my previous article, “Calabazas” and “La Cobacha de Castellanos”, you...Read More

Indeed, I am convinced that things are never, or almost never, by chance. Specifically, I want to refer to two different situations, in which I think I can demonstrate it. For 6 or 8 years, our advisers for the purchase of cork in the field, always indicated to us that, in general terms, the cork...Read More

As we have already reported, in view of the virulence of COVID-19 in our region at the end of March, we agreed by mutual agreement to inform our customers that we would deliver all urgent orders in the week from 23rd to 27th March, and then the factory would close for a month with the...Read More

As you will remember, last June 19 we published the entrance of the first truck of the present cork harvest 2019. We already indicated in that comment that we were worried about the year and therefore, we were working to the limit of our possibilities in all the farms that we had contracted. Today, August...Read More

For another year we wanted to get to know in situ the peculiarities of the cork harvest. The visit was mainly of a technical nature and we were accompanied by some technicians of interested customers. The year is being very hard and difficult for everyone. Especially for the cork harvest specialists, who had to endure...Read More

As a signer of this comment, and with due respect, for my life experience, I share this idea. Today, 4 hours after having been downloaded the first cork truck of this campaign, we received he visit/audit of one of our most loyal customers, D.Jesús Laguna (Technical Director of Vinos y Aceites Laguna from Villaconejos, Madrid)....Read More

Today, 19th June, we received the first cork truck of this year’s harvest. We are operating at the same time in all the estates whose cork we have purchased, trying to avoid the risks that a hot summer can cause, so we hope that by 15th July we have perfectly placed in our yard the...Read More

We can  inform about our very positive opinion of the cork analytical evolution of the 2018 harvest. The so dry winter and high daytime temperatures may be accelerating in more than 30 days the optimum point of the cork to start the phase of first boiling and cutting. Such is the conviction that, in the...Read More