French for "easy" or "pleasant" or "pleasing."
Because world-wide concern with the perceived degradation of cork quality had a tremendous impact on the cork industry, a group of U.S. cork suppliers founded the Cork Quality Council (CQC) in 1992. Its mission was to improve the quality of corks at the source,...
In the Libournais area of France this iron-rich hard pan is also known as "machefer."