{"id":557,"date":"2011-03-14T16:03:12","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T16:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/wineblog\/?p=557"},"modified":"2011-03-14T16:03:12","modified_gmt":"2011-03-14T16:03:12","slug":"corked-wine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/corked-wine\/","title":{"rendered":"Corked Wine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Corked doesn\u2019t refer to bits of cork floating in your wine glass. Natural corks, made from the bark of cork trees grown in Spain and Portugal, can contain a chemical compound called \u201c2, 4, 6 trichloranisole\u201d or TCA. The wine interacts with TCA to create the taint and it\u2019s estimated that 5-10% of natural corks are faulty this way, though that&#8217;s improving with more careful practices and better technology. Even a mild case of taint from natural corks strips wine of its expressive aromas and a severe one makes it smell like moldy cardboard. This defect is why screwcaps are coming into vogue: you bypass this issue altogether.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Corked doesn\u2019t refer to bits of cork floating in your wine glass. Natural corks, made from the bark of cork trees grown in Spain and Portugal, can contain a chemical compound called \u201c2, 4, 6 trichloranisole\u201d or TCA. The wine interacts with TCA to create the taint and it\u2019s estimated that 5-10% of natural corks are faulty this way, though that&#8217;s improving with more careful practices and better technology. Even a mild case of taint from natural corks strips wine of its expressive aromas and a severe one makes it smell like moldy cardboard. This defect is why screwcaps are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-taste-wine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}