When a Bottle Goes Wrong
The final tasting lesson covers six common wine faults, how to tell them from deliberate styles, and what to do with a bad bottle. It then turns to wildfire smoke taint and the 2020 Willamette fires, Ricochet's low-sulfur winemaking, and the newly finished 2026 harvest and fall events.
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Six ways a bottle goes wrong
A fault masks what a wine should show. Disliking a wine does not make it faulty. Most faults give two signs: an unwanted smell, and fruit that has gone missing.
Cork taint comes…
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