Corky (Adjective)
Meaning
(of wine) tainted in flavor by a cork containing excess tannin; "a corked port".
Classification
All adjective clusters.
Examples
- The connoisseur politely refused to serve the bottle of merlot after noticing the first sip tasted slightly corky.
- This champagne might have aged prematurely and ended up being somewhat corky to drink now.
- Over-extraction can often give an awkward astringency making an oak-bulk-aged cider unduly tannic, prone to showing oddly sour yet quite firmly felt cider – think utterly smacked when run solid full-face nose before tipping near bottle-hound nearly ripe time straight tight corky.
- Wine connoisseurs at high-end restaurants pay thousands of dollars for a single bottle, and they expect nothing to be corky or spoiled in it.
- Wine drinkers have heard this statement "it's down to the corks" often enough: high tanning levels leave the wine tasting noticeably, unbearably corky, probably at fault with various packaging and handling problems beyond control from very several origins sometimes involved during manufacturing.