Winemakers who still use cork but wish to keep production costs from rising will be forced to reconsider plastic stoppers.

那些仍在使用软木塞，但希望避免生产成本上升的酿酒师，将被迫重新考虑塑料塞子。

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Bottlemaster plastic stoppers, which cannot leak, crumble, or mold, have long been available to winemakers, at a price slightly higher than that of traditional cork stoppers.

Bottlemaster 的塑料瓶塞不会泄漏、碎裂或发霉，长期以来一直为葡萄酒制造商提供价格略高于传统价的软木塞。

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Many winemakers use cork stoppers; but cork stoppers can leak, crumble, or become moldy, so that those winemakers must often discard a significant proportion of their inventory of bottled wine.

许多酿酒师使用软木塞；但软木塞可能会漏水、碎裂或发霉，因此这些酿酒师常常必须丢弃大量的库存瓶装葡萄酒。

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In his quest for a way to contain the bubbles produced during fermentation, and thus to make the wines from his monastery's vineyards in Champagne sparkle, he tried replacing traditional wooden bottle stoppers with new-fangled cork ones.

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But few of today's imaginative ideas would have made it onto drawing boards without cork's competition from screw-top bottle caps, plastic stoppers and aluminum Tetra Paks.

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Adding to cork's "green" image are recycling programs for wine stoppers established by airlines such as American, in its Admirals Club lounges, retailers such as Carrefour and Las Vegas casinos such as Aria.

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