Cork Taint

Perhaps the rarest bottles of wine are the ones that are just barely corked, minimally damaged enough that they are still drinkable. Most flaws in wine exist somewhere on a spectrum, some amount being acceptable or even enjoyable to the right palette. Cork taint (TCA – 2,4,6 trichloroanisole if you’re a …

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Hey guys, we stopped putting our episodes on youtube. It was taking too much time and energy and space and stuff. You can find new (and all of the old) episodes on all platforms that stream podcasts like apple podcasts, spotify, and anchor.fm/cork-taint. We’ll probably take this tab of the site …

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Alright partner, per furious requests today we’re talking about how, when faced with the occasionally infuriating experience of wine shopping, to buy a bottle you will enjoy. I’m gonna go through a few scenarios here based on three tiers of wine knowledge and experience. I’ll preface this by saying that no …

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We drink German and Austrian Pinot Noir (locally known as Spatburgunder and Blauburgunder respectively) which is very good. Weingut Brundlmayer 2011 pinot noir reserve and Koehler-Ruprecht 2017 Kabinett Trocken