Is wine safe to drink after the cork crumbles

So youРІР‚в„ўre going to have to really trust your nose and your palate. So it can have other flaws, but itРІР‚в„ўs not going to have a bad cork.Р”В«ottom Line: And there wonРІР‚в„ўt be any telltale signs on a syntheticРІР‚В¦Р”Вixon: No, there wonРІР‚в„ўt.

So those have nothing to do with the type of cork that has been usedРІР‚В¦that has everything to do with transportation and how the wine was made. There can be bacteria in the wineРІР‚В¦there can be bacteria that was used in the barrels that the wine was fermented or stored inРІР‚В¦or the wine could be heated up during transportation and it was cooked. I mean, again, a lot of things can cause a wine to flaw. TheyРІР‚в„ўre good.Р”В«ottom Line: Does it keep the wine from going bad?Р”Вixon: Of course. I think everything should be coming in screw top and glass top closure and plastic corks.Р”В«ottom Line: I was going to ask you about that, whether screw top wasРІР‚В¦Р”В«ottom Line:Р’В All right, so letРІР‚в„ўs talk about synthetic corks. TheyРІР‚в„ўre great.Р”Вixon: Oh, theyРІР‚в„ўre fantastic. Am I able to use that as a barometer?Р”Вixon: Love, love, love, love me some synthetic corks. Because when cork dries up, it shrinks, and you no longer have a good seal.Р”В«ottom Line: So how about now-they have these synthetic corks. If the corkРІР‚в„ўs really dry, it means that the wine was probably standing up for a long period of time-which is fine for a month in a local retail shop, but ideally you want that wine laying on its side so that the cork stays saturated and therefore has a good closure on the wine. You want to have a cork thatРІР‚в„ўs slightly moist at the tip, at the side thatРІР‚в„ўs been exposed to the wine, and also thatРІР‚в„ўs got some good elasticity to the cork. If a cork is bone dry and itРІР‚в„ўs flaking and itРІР‚в„ўs disintegrating, that means, again, that the wine was probably not stored properly. So again, I urge people to trust their nose and their palate.Р”В«ut if I got a cork like that at a restaurant or I bought a bottle of wine at a local store and I saw it has bled halfway up the cork and the wineРІР‚в„ўs not smelling quite right to me, it doesnРІР‚в„ўt taste quite right to me, these are all great clues.Р”В«ottom Line: So should I feel the cork? Does moisture of the cork have anything to do with it?Р”Вixon: Absolutely. It could have been that they were loading it on a dock and it was 80Р’В° outsideРІР‚В¦it sat out there for 10 minutesРІР‚В¦and it shot up real quickРІР‚В¦and itРІР‚в„ўs fine. But again, that could have been a quick temperature spike. So these corks that we have on the screen, the one all the way on the left, which looks like itРІР‚в„ўs kind of dark halfway up.Р”В«ottom Line: ThatРІР‚в„ўs bled up, and thatРІР‚в„ўs probably bad.Р”Вixon : ThatРІР‚в„ўs probably bad. I would never hesitate.Р”В«ottom Line:Р’В LetРІР‚в„ўs take a look. If it goes more than, I would say, one-eighth of the way up the cork, thatРІР‚в„ўs a telltale sign that something has happened to heat this wine up.Р”Р„nd we want to really trust our nose and our palate, so if I look at the cork and I see that that wine has bled up the cork significantly and the wine isnРІР‚в„ўt smelling quite right, canРІР‚в„ўt really put my finger on it, those two clues are telling me that this wine is flawed, and I would absolutely send it back. So the wine has been heated up during transportation, so it went up the cork. And a wine bottle has nowhere to go but up that cork, because cork is a porous surface. What happens when a liquid gets heated up?Р”Вixon : Exactly. What that means is that wine is a very delicate thing. WeРІР‚в„ўre going to pull up an example of a wine cork that shows that this wine has been transported or stored improperly. ThereРІР‚в„ўs a couple of clues that youРІР‚в„ўre going to look for. ItРІР‚в„ўs going to tell you how that wine was stored and transported. The cork is going to tell you a variety of different things. But your wine should not smell like cork, and thatРІР‚в„ўs really the first telltale sign. Bottom Line: ItРІР‚в„ўs going to smell like cork.Р”Вixon: Exactly, as it should, because itРІР‚в„ўs a cork.

Is wine safe to drink after the cork crumbles