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Detecting corked wine

You know that feeling...you're out to a pricey dinner with friends and you've ordered an impressive wine. But the sommelier pours for you...
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Bad wine: corked, cooked and quaked, part two

  • cooked wine
  • October 10, 2011
“What’s wrong with my wine?”In Florida, high temperature is the biggest cause of bad wine, or “cooking,” which means...
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What to do if your next bottle of wine is "corked."

Attention: Three to 7 percent of all wines are contaminated with small levels of trichloroanisole (TCA). Not to worry though, because detectable...
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What is corked wine?

First, let’s make this clear a corked wine is not one with stray bits of cork floating around in the liquid, and you cannot discern corked...
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What makes a bottle of wine bad?

You just spent a small fortune on that new bottle of wine for that special occasion. You open it in excited anticipaton, expectng to savor...
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Saving Wine from the Brink: How to Rescue a “Corked" Bottle of Wine

  • wine
  • January 23, 2011
This article is going to be a little different than ones from the past. Instead of making recommendations on wines to seek out and purchase to...
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