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Elizabeth Riadi Group moderatorThe company name is only visible to registered members.Fact or a Myth about smelling the Cork?
This question is to all members. Do you think that after opening a bottle of wine smelling the cork with tell you something about the wine or the cork smells like cork and has nothing to do with the wine?
I would love to hear from all of you. I will poste my opinion after I hear from you.
- 16 Sep 2004, 04:04 am
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Reinhard von Hennigs Premium Member Group moderatorThe company name is only visible to registered members.Re^2: Fact or a Myth about smelling the Cork?
I never really thought about this.
I smell the cork sometime at good or sprcial wines, if it smells a little like the wine, it is fine with me.
If it smells "old" and "used" and "rotten" or " faul" ( sorry but this is now a German word), than the wine is normally over its life cycle or exactly there...
Also I realized that a lot of the cheaper wines use a cork which looks like plywood (little cork pieces glued together), the same is used by expensive champagnes... I always wonder why.....
... and more expensive wines spend more money on a real cut cork.
- 16 Sep 2004, 1:32 pm
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Philippe BouckenoogheThe company name is only visible to registered members.Re^5: Fact or a Myth about smelling the Cork?
Dear all,
The discussion about corks and its alternatives (benefits and inconviences) is an interesting topic in the wine sector.
However if you are interested in learning something about corks I can recommend the following article written by the famous wine writer John Radford. I hope you find it as interesting as I did.
http://www.johnradford.com/archive/oth04.htm
Philippe
- 27 Jan 2006, 10:29 am
