Alternative Wine Closure - Zork

Zork

ZORK is the company name of an Australian business that designs and manufactures alternative closures. The ZORK STL's inspiration came from Conor McKenna and was designed by John Brooks in Adelaide, South Australia. It consists of an alternative wine closure for still wines, that seals like a screw cap and pops like a cork. It is made in Australia, the USA & Europe (Italy). Such closure has three parts: an outer cap providing a tamper evident clamp that locks onto the band of a standard cork mouth bottle; an inner metal foil which provides an oxygen barrier similar to a screw cap, and an inner plunger which creates the ‘pop’ on extraction and reseals after use.

Released in 2010, it is the first on-bottle, resealable closure for sparkling wines. Consumers can use the mushroom-shaped stopper to reseal the bottle, retaining the fizz between glasses. Manufactured in Australia (Scholle Packaging) it has been seen on sparkling beverages bottles globally.