| Everybody is interested in finding good, quality | | | | into the bottle and the sizzle, the spark of it got |
| wines, and not many people actually care about a | | | | lost throughout the years. Try to think of a flat |
| bad wine. They should though if they want to | | | | Coke and you get the idea. |
| learn what defines a good one and what makes it | | | | - Moldy taste. This can happen if the grapes that |
| good or bad in the first place. | | | | made the wine contained a few bad and moldy |
| Since tastes differ strongly from person to | | | | ones. Trust me, the moldy taste easily transfers |
| person, what is good for one might be quite bad | | | | to the drink if you have a few spoiled berries in it. |
| for the other. While you can express your opinion | | | | - Cooked wine. This is an interesting (albeit bad) |
| about a good wine and recommend it to | | | | taste. It basically has a taste as if you'd actually |
| somebody else, it is quite different when it comes | | | | cooked it prior to drinking. This mostly happen |
| to a bad wine, since your friend might actually | | | | when it has been stored for a long time in the |
| enjoy it, so you are usually reluctant to give him | | | | heat. |
| or her a bad opinion of what you didn't like. | | | | - Corky wine. I'm sure you know well this one, it |
| This is not to say that you will encounter many | | | | has a smell of a damp cardboard. Usually a bad |
| bad wines in your life. If you compare wines to | | | | cork is at fault here and while the drink originally |
| years ago, the methods of making it have greatly | | | | might have been a great one, it got spoiled when |
| improved and sometimes there is simply the issue | | | | in prolonged contact with the faulty cork. |
| of a good wine having been stored in a bad | | | | While usually having a good or a bad wine is a |
| bottle, which has invariably changed the drink into | | | | matter of personal preference, the points above |
| one with a bad taste. Of course, there is that as | | | | are generally considered the hallmark of a bad |
| well. However there are some standards that are | | | | one, either due to actual bad grapes, bad |
| there based on common characteristics that | | | | production process or bad storage. Consuming |
| many people seem to agree upon, and to really | | | | them should be avoided at all cost and they |
| put it down on paper, here are some of the | | | | should not even be used for cooking. |
| common traits of a bad wine. | | | | To truly enjoy a good wine, you need to pour it |
| - Oxidized taste. It basically has a flat and weak | | | | through a crystal decanter and drink it from |
| taste. This happens when too much oxygen got | | | | crystal wine goblets. |