Someone asked a question about cooking with corked wine, and apparently no one knows what corked wine is...so i want to find out how many of you do, or do not know what it acually is. Yes, i do know what corked wine is.
2007-10-02 11:00:50 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Food & Drink ➔ Beer, Wine & Spirits
no lance, she wasnt. She posted some new details. Shes talking about corked wine, in the true meaning of what corked wine is.
2007-10-02 11:11:11 · update #1
Corked wine is wine which has reacted with the cork in the bottle and tastes bad because of it.
2007-10-02 11:03:39 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
There's an old (but good) saying that you shouldn't cook with any wine that you wouldn't drink.
There are different degrees of 'corkiness', some are not as bad as others. But people have vastly different tolerations of it, so what is bad to me might not be noticeable to someone else and may be intolerable to a third person. At the lowest level of corkiness, the flavor of the wine is dulled, at higher levels it just stinks.
Personally I would take (if possible) the corked wine back to the supplier for a exchange or refund. I wouldn't cook with it.
But I know some people who say that cooking with a low level corked wine works......
Corkiness is the common name given to wines affected with TCA which (without looking it up as per instructions - though I normally would) is something along the lines of Trichloroanisole 2-4-6
2007-10-03 06:37:27 · answer #2 · answered by Pontac 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
corked wine is wine turned bad, because of a tainted cork. i wouldn't recommend cooking with it. i've opened literally thousands of wine bottles over the years, only about a dozen were corked.
2007-10-03 05:40:15 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I know. Some cork contains a bacteria that produces TCA. The TCA is detectable by people in the PPB range, so just a tiny spec of it can ruin a wine by giving it a musty, wet newspaper or wet dog smell.
2007-10-02 18:05:43 · answer #4 · answered by obviously_you'renotagolfer 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
it is a chemical called TCA (can't recall what it stands for) that is released from the cork or even the barrels etc. in the winery that is absorbed into the wine which gives a "dirty sock" musty type smell to the wine.
2007-10-03 00:23:00 · answer #5 · answered by Lisa H 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
As far as I have always been aware, "Corked Wine" is any wine above a particular quality that has been bottled from its maturing vat, and a cork inserted into the bottle. It distinguishes it from the cheaper, "less classy" wines where they simply put a screw top in the bottle.
It more or less classifies the wine as one having been prepared and sold as a particular "vintage" and since it is somewhat more expensive, if you cook with it, you are definitely working on some kind of gourmet dish.
In England when I lived there, folks were in the habit of referring to the cheaper types of wine as "Plonk". You know when you go to a really good restaurant, the waiter brings a bottle for your scrutiny, shows you the label, and then, if it is to be chilled, gently lowers it into the ice bucket at your table. When the wine is to be poured, he uncorks the bottle, pours a little into the glass for whoever appears to be head of the dining party to sip and approve. Once he nods, the glasses are filled. It's all very gracious and ceremonial.
But, when ya just go down to the local Wine and Spirits shop and pick up a regular old bottle of "cheapo", ya just take it home, and plonk it down on the dinner table for everyone to reach for and slosh some into his glass.
You might say that Corked Wine is the opposite of "Plonk" lolol
2007-10-02 18:13:11 · answer #6 · answered by sharmel 6 · 1⤊ 4⤋
A corked wine is typically a better quality than screw top bottles of wine. Hence the cork, which provides a superior air tight seal for excellent storage in a wine cellar.
On the issue of cooking, the old saying is " cook with what you would drink". Professional chefs follow that rule and they don't drink screw cap wine.
2007-10-02 20:31:15 · answer #7 · answered by liorio1 4 · 0⤊ 6⤋
its when bacteria in the cork of a bottle contaminates the wine within the bottle - resulting in a foul tasting/smelling product.
2007-10-02 18:08:06 · answer #8 · answered by Doug 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
WHen you open a bottle of wine and it smells and tastes nasty. It was not sealed and air got in or it has stinky bugs in it. No, jk.
It's bad and don't drink it.
2007-10-02 18:33:58 · answer #9 · answered by ☆miss☆ 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Wine that has a cork.
2007-10-02 18:03:41 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋