Let's see, you are on a plane, you order the house red, you get your glass and it smells like TCA, how could that be, it came out of a little plastic bottle with a screw cap, no cork in sight. Wait, could it be coming from the plane?

All jokes aside, Portugal, rightly so, is investigating other uses for cork as natural closure sales decline. Interesting article from Wired regarding the initiave.

Cork Airplanes Could Prop Up Bottle-Shocked Industry