This week's Netscape Forum poll: How much wine is cork-tainted?
Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 10:00 am
Poll: How much wine is cork-tainted?
Historically - including my own experience - a solid 5 percent of all commercial wine under natural cork stoppers has been "corked," irreparably tainted by the presence of a chemical nicknamed TCA that's usually associated with problematic corks. This enduring problem has prompted a growing shift toward alternative closures in recent years, but to its credit, at least some players in the natural cork industry have taken steps to minimize the incidence of taint. This week's Netscape WineLovers Community seeks a rough measure of the current situation, as we ask you to estimate what percentage of the wines you open nowadays suffer from cork taint.
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Historically - including my own experience - a solid 5 percent of all commercial wine under natural cork stoppers has been "corked," irreparably tainted by the presence of a chemical nicknamed TCA that's usually associated with problematic corks. This enduring problem has prompted a growing shift toward alternative closures in recent years, but to its credit, at least some players in the natural cork industry have taken steps to minimize the incidence of taint. This week's Netscape WineLovers Community seeks a rough measure of the current situation, as we ask you to estimate what percentage of the wines you open nowadays suffer from cork taint.
<b>Click here to vote!
(Note that it is generally not necessary to log in to the Netscape forum to vote in polls; you'll have to log in if you wish to comment there, but please feel free also to post comments in this thread.)