Lisbon

The Tagus river

An ancient olive tree

Castelo de Sao Jorge

Excellent guitarist

A maiden in distress!

The Alentejo

Monte dos Arneiros

Cork forest

Old-fashioned cork pile

In the cork forest

Gorse bushes

Amorim's new factory at Coruche

The first sorting

Virgin cork

Sorted piles

Ready for boiling

The boiling process

The second sorting

Green patches

Thin bark

Cork dust silo

Production of granules

Sorting of granules

Extrusion of agglomerate cork

Production of Twin-Top

Cutting slices

Manual punching

Polishing machine

Automatic sorting machine

Manual inspection

Manual sorting

The old boiling tanks

Testing for integrity

Flame branding

Testing for TCA by GC-ECD

Oporto

Taylor's peacock