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mountainman User is Offline

Mammoth Mountain

Wine Bottler
Posts:3074

04/30/2007 7:21 PM
This was in the LA Times a month ago and I wondered if anyone was familiar with this. Mel Knox, a San Francisco-based oak-barrel broker who represents French cooper Taransaud, says there is an easy solution, particularly when the cork taint is relatively mild. In a glass pitcher, wad up roughly a square foot of Saran Wrap or other polyethylene plastic wrap. Pour the tainted wine over the plastic wrap in the pitcher. Expose all of the wine to the plastic wrap by gently swirling the wine in the pitcher for five or 10 minutes. The more pronounced the taint, the longer the wine should be exposed to the plastic wrap. For stubborn cases, repeat the plastic soak with a fresh wad of wrap. Pour out a small amount of wine to test the results and when the taint is gone, decant the wine into another container. Toss the plastic and enjoy the wine. Polyethylene absorbs TCA like a sponge, says Brian Smith, president of Vinovation, a "wine fix-it shop" that is experimenting with different plastic-filled cartridge filters that can be thrown into cork-tainted barrels or tanks to absorb TCA.

Winetex

Austin, Texas

Master of Wine
Posts:10373

05/01/2007 8:53 AM
I'll try it for kicks but I don't think there is any way it could remove enough TCA for me to drink most wines. Once I smell and/or taste TCA it's a downhill slope. Polyethylene absorbs TCA like a sponge, says Brian Smith, president of Vinovation, a "wine fix-it shop" that is experimenting with different plastic-filled cartridge filters that can be thrown into cork-tainted barrels or tanks to absorb TCA. Just what we need, lots of ever so slightly corked wines.

dinwiddie

Barrel Sampler
Posts:2142

05/01/2007 3:45 PM
Of course, now the wine will taste like Saran Wrap.

TBird

Park Slope, Brooklyn

Wine Connoisseur
Posts:5167

05/01/2007 3:49 PM
i was a non believer that you could cook tca off, but was recently proven wrong. i guess anything can happen...

jason

Napa Valley

Wine Addict
Posts:6756

05/01/2007 4:38 PM
I tried this once with a bottle of 95 Soldera BdM Case Basse Riserva. It worked relatively well for the tca but by the time it did enough the wine was oxidized.

wineismylife User is Offline

Arlington, TX

Master of Wine
Posts:11872

05/01/2007 7:55 PM
I've found that the few times I've tried this it removed most (not all) of the TCA but unfortunately, as TCA tends to do, the wine was virtually void of fruit. What's the point?

Joe ----- Wine is like potato chips around me...if it's open, it's gone.

winebrat

Sacramento, Ca.

Barrel Sampler
Posts:2326

05/16/2007 3:28 PM
True. TCA is lazy and would rather attatch itself to this rather than liquid, but at this point the wine has already been stripped of its fruit. This is why screw caps and the glass stoppers aren't 100% as they have a polymer in them that TCA hooks to.

"Everyday is worthy of a glass of sparkling wine" - Andrea Immer MS

TBird

Park Slope, Brooklyn

Wine Connoisseur
Posts:5167

05/16/2007 3:46 PM
i finally got around to trying this on monday night. and i agree with everyone else. it helped, a little. well, alot, i guess. but it was still ultimately useless as i still did not want to drink the product that was left behind.

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