21 to 30 Housewife Graduate None of the above Please tell me what wine cork is made out of.
Wine cork comes from the bark of the cork oak tree.
The cork oat tree belongs to the beech family, Fagaceae . It is genus Quercus , species suber . A cork oak tree must be approximately 20 years old before its bark is thick enough to be stripped. The bark is removed from the tree with hatchets and dried in the Sun. The first layer removed is called the virgin bark.