“CORK TAINT” Doesn’t sound good, does it?
  • “CORK TAINT” Doesn’t sound good, does it?

What do you do when a bottle of wine is "bad"? Here's a scenario: A server comes up to me at a function and says that three of the last five bottles of wine they've poured are corked. What the fuck? I'm alarmed. I run over to check this out. None of the bottles are corked. I ask the server what brought this on. "I poured the wine for the guest, and she said, 'This wine is bad.'" Holy fuck, I just about shit my pants. I'm pissed at myself that these peeps working for me don't know what a corked wine smells like. I'm pissed at them because they've opened and poured three bottles of wine looking for one that wasn't "corked." And I'm pissed that this woman has just categorically turned down a wine as being "bad" when it wasn't... necessarily.

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