liquid assets
Sydney Morning Herald
Thursday March 31, 2011
The etiquette of wine ... In a restaurant, is it pretentious - and unnecessary - to sniff and taste a wine if it has a screw cap?No and yes, says our resident wine expert, Peter Bourne. "It isn't pretentious (unless you consider the tradition of formally confirming that the wine and its vintage are correct a pretence). But yes, it's unnecessary to check for cork taint. A quick sniff, however, may pick up other issues such as premature oxidisation and bacterial spoilage. I still do it."
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