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SUMMARY:L’odore di tappo (Cork Taint) Part1
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Cork Taint
L’odore di tappo



So now we're going to spend an awful lot of time talking about my least favorite topic in all of enology. And that would be cork taint. And that's because I've been studying this phenomenon since 1986 and I know an awful lot about it. I've offered a lot of expert testimony and a lot of court trials and I just hate it. But anyway, here we go, I'm going to spill my guts. I was retailing in 1973 and all of a sudden, within a month, all the spirits on the shelf switched over from bar tops to screw caps. And whoa, what was that about? And the wine industry did not follow suit? At that time, screw caps were considered inferior and they were only on the cheapest garbage in the industry. It was sort of a mark of shame, and so nobody went to screw caps at that point. Now, we didn't know what cork taint was back then We did come across bottles that smelled moldy, but we assumed it was moldy cooperage that just hadn't been properly sanitized. And I...

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