Corked wine

[Thomas]

"Corked" is not a good word, since all wine that is not capped with a screw cap or plastic stopper is corked. "Tainted Cork" is a better reference, and it identifies the problem accurately, for the wine was ruined by a cork that was tainted by bacteria growth; there is a long technical explanation of how it happens. Estimates of wine ruined by tainted cork run from 2 to 5 %.