rob
Senior Member
- Joined
- Dec 28, 2009
- Messages
- 844
- Reaction score
- 31
Under French law wine must be bottled using natural cork. The traditional seal has long frustrated producers with the inconsistent amount of air it lets through and its tendency to become tainted with 2,4,6- Trichloroanisole (TCA), a compound that makes wine smell like wet cardboard. ( Bachus to the Future, 11-20-13 – The Economist)
