Cork taint is likely the single most preventable wine quality issue in the industry. Mother Nature might assault vineyards with rain, frost and heat but a good winemaker works around climactic whims.

An exploration of one of the wine world’s most unwelcome guests: TCA. Imagine settling in for a long-anticipated dinner, uncorking a treasured bottle of wine to enjoy alongside it, and excitedly ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tasting or smelling wine before the waiter pours lets you know if it's corked or not. Here's what to look for. Wine service can ...

Have you ever wondered if you can spot corked wine without even smelling or tasting it? While visiting the tasting room at Silver Oak, the guide showed us an obvious sign that an old, aged wine is no ...

What does it mean for a wine to be corked? F&W's Ray Isle tells how to sniff out a bad bottle and tests his skills against an expert: a dog. Yes, I'd like to think my motives were scientific, but I ...

Ever send a bottle of wine back at a restaurant? If you weren’t just being a pretentious snob, then it was probably because the wine seemed ‘corked’ – had a musty odor and didn’t taste quite right.

Then Bob became Robert Parker Jr., wine critic demigod. Robert Mondavi figured out you sell more wine if you make labels comprehensible. Baby boomers entered adulthood with corkscrews in hand. A new ...

A buttery flavor with notes of raspberries, chocolate and … wet dog? Open enough bottles of wine, and eventually, one will smell a bit "off." Corked wines have been contaminated by a chemical carried ...