Sommelier Tips: What Do You Do If You’re Faced With A Tainted Wine?
By Muna wa Wanjiru
More importantly will you know that you have a tainted wine on your hands? The best thing that I can tell you is that your nose will know the difference in the wines even if you don’t immediately recognize it for what it is. Bad wines can and will occur at some point in time when you buy a wine, and the only thing you can do is to not drink it and return it if you can.
If you’re in a good restaurant, this will definitely be possible as the sommelier will know that occurencs of tainted wine can happen and that wines can go off due to any number of reasons. Don’t just cringe and drink up just because you paid for the bottle, return it immediately, and the sommelier will probably be more than happy to replace it for you.
If you bought tainted wine from a wine merchant then there’s a good chance that they might also take it back from you. This isn’t always a given though and depends entirely on the merchant. Otherwise you can just chalk it all up to experience and water the sink with the wine.
It’s an astonishing fact that as many as one in twenty bottles of wine will be a tainted wine. That’s not a small number in the larger picture, so if you look at it logically, at some point in time you’re bound to hit that magical number one tainted wine.
Your nose will be able to tell you if its a tainted wine more readily than your other senses so you really should listen to it as much as you can. For instance, if your freshly uncorked wine smells of mold or mildew, or even if it has a musty smell, it’s a definite sign that its a tainted wine. This can happen if the cork interacted with outside contaminants before corking the wine bottle.
On the other hand if you get a sour smell, and upon examination your wine shows a slight discoloration to it, then there’s a good chance that you wine has passed its prime. And latterly, you might find that your wine has a slight chemical smell to it. That’s because the grape has at some point or other been contaminated with pesticides and the like, and this has come through into the wine.
This reason for a tainted wine isn’t as common as the first type that I told you about, which is also commonly referred to, as cork taint.
Muna wa Wanjiru is a web administrator and has been researching and reporting on internet marketing for years. For more information on tainted wine, visit his site at TAINTED WINE http://www.merpetsales.com/winetasting/
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