Tastevin's cork question

[Tastevin]

No Foodie, what I am referring to is categorically not the wine having pieces of cork in it (after well over 40 years in the wine trade I am well aware of the term for that - It’s ‘wine with pieces of cork in it!’).
Bearing in mind that the nose of wine aged in wood reflects that fact, to a higher or lesser degree, then it stands to reason does it not, that a bad cork’s smell will be imparted to the bottled wine? As I’m sure you know, because wine is very sensitive barrels are cleaned inside before being filled with wine to avoid it being contaminated.
Here we do not associate ‘musty-woody’ with the smell of a barrel with wine in it; a cellar or barrel with a musty smell is a cellar or barrel with a problem, and so has the wine from it. And no, a bad cork does not smell musty. A bad orange for example has an unpleasant smell, but with eyes closed one would still know it is an orange, because it smells like one; new smells would certainly have been created during its deterioration, but the over-riding aroma would still be orange.
To me, a wine cork has its own distinctive smell. If someone were to put one under my nose I would know that it was a cork, not a wood pencil, not a wood matchstick.
When you say musty-woody do you not mean musty-corky? After all, you said earlier that to you cork smells vaguely of mild wood. Which mild wood would that be, deal, ash, pine? I would respectfully suggest none of them or any other, and your ‘mild wood’ smell is in fact that of cork.
I am sure your good lady knows that being pedantic does not necessarily mean one is correct. T