
Bad wine, or not bad wine
Sometimes bad stuff happens to wine as it travels across the country or the world. Let's take a look at some common 'bad stuff' and their terms. Corked wine - When a wine that is "corked" is opened you can tell, honest anyone can recognize that can smell. It smells like a wet basement, musty fruit, or rotten cardboard. It happens because the cork itself contaminates the wine with a chemical, TCA. TCA occurs when natural fungi, which cork has comes in contact with certain chl