Tag: cork taint

The greatest enemy of a good bottle of wine isn’t bad taste or a cheap price; it’s a bad cork. When we talk about “wine problems,” the most definitive and frustrating fault is cork taint, or TCA. It’s the one true deal-breaker that ruins the wine beyond redemption, turning a promising pour into something resembling […]

You pour a glass of that highly anticipated bottle, bring it to your nose, and instead of ripe fruit or earthy notes, you get wet cardboard, damp basement, or musty dog. That’s wine taint, most commonly caused by TCA (2,4,6-trichloroanisole), and it can ruin a wine. The most effective, widely used, and genuinely helpful immediate […]