Taste before serving to identify any deficiencies prohibitive - and then change the bottle or glass.A frequent cause of referral of the wine is what we call here "flavors: an odor (rotten wood, de renfermé, dust), and taste like wet cardboard (even if the wine can be of First fruity and creamy). To identify the flavors, do not shake the glass. Even if you do not feel the cap, it alters the taste of wine.
This anomaly is not always detectable at the opening, but by the minute it masks a growing taste for wine. Therefore the restaurant I refer a bottle at the first suspicion.
If you have a doubt in you, take another glass. Rinse with clean water to remove any dust or detergent. Do not dry and Regout before placing the bottle aside.
Some people detect the flavors more than others. A survey of twenty tasters know that I gave about 4% of bottles are abnormal taste which should lead to open another bottle, and the greatest wines are no more reliable than others.
How to avoid wines "bouchonné"
Who are the leaders of flavors? In some cases, the flavors is due to the cap, while in others it comes from a tainted atmosphere contaminated the wine before its closure (chloroanisoles, TCA).
The wine may reduce the proportion of wine holder:
By purchasing caps and better separating the rooms where the wines of those storage materials.
For wine to drink in the year we can change the type of cap to synthetic closures or caps, screw or crown. (Many experiments are successful over two years).
Screw caps specially designed to allow the wine a good wine aging. Major producers are closing their bottles with such caps (but not for the French market).
Increasingly good wines are available in "Bag-in-Box" (also called "cubitainers). It is a pocket protected by a sealed carton. The advantages include: the absence of flavors and the maintenance of taste several weeks after opening (against a few hours for a bottle).
Therefore, the wine industry has a responsibility. If you want to meet under the "flavors, you can:
- Buy other cuvées Avoid bottle corks think if you open them in the years following the first sale.
- Please inform the winegrower that you buy more wine if it was less damaged.
- Explain the problem and alternatives to your friends to share information.
