It's a common misconception that tasting wine before a waiter pours it for the table is to confirm you like the taste. That ...

That's quite a mouthful, so it's usually referred to as TCA, and it is sometimes found in tree bark, which wine corks happen to be made from. To be more specific, TCA can form when fungi ...

But not everyone can pick that up. There are a number of ways a wine can be flawed (heat damage, oxidation, bacterial problems) but corkiness is caused by trichloroanisole, or TCA, a compound that can ...

TCA (2,4,6-Trichloroanisole): A chemical compound that can give wine a musty, dirty, bitter, chalky character often described as moldy newspapers or damp cardboard. TCA can be formed in many ways; ...