corked

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corked

(of a wine) tainted through having a cork containing excess tannin

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This is the first corked bat of Mantle that we have seen or heard of," Taube added.

Corked Mantle Bat: Illegal Bat Used By New York Yankees Legend Mickey Mantle Hits Auction Block [PHOTO]

And the disappointment of saving a prized bottle for a special event and then finding it is corked should be more than enough to change anyone's mind about cork being a magical ingredient of the wine-drinking experience.

Age old argument exploded; Raise AGlass

Corked wines have been the bane of winemakers, and they are a big part of the impetus to use cork alternatives.

A closer look at closures: a cork by any name is not the same

Corked wine has been a bane for wine lovers since the development of these natural stoppers, but a hi-tech process which blasts the cork with carbon dioxide is said to remove all traces of the stale taint.

Raising a glass to cork-safe wine

But how many wine drinkers realise that up to 10 per cent of wine bottles are corked.

Clare McKeon's column: Dilemma is real corker

Roughly 3% to 8% of all corked wines develop what is known as cork taint.

Wake Up and Smell the Octen-3-ol

For as long as the word cork has been synonymous with sealing wine bottles, it has been associated with the nasty wooden taste that occasionally crops up and which drinkers have bemoaned for centuries as corked wine.

Letter From Portugal: Plastic inflow threatens to seal fate of cork stoppers

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