To Cork or Not To Cork: Tradition, Romance, Science, and the Battle for the Wine Bottle

In Judgment of Paris, George M. Taber masterfully chronicled the historic 1976 wine tasting when unknown California wines defeated top French ones, marking a major turning point in wine history. Now he explores the most controversial topic in the world of wine: What product should be used to seal a bottle? Should it be cork, plastic, glass, a screwcap, or some other type of closure still to be invented? For nearly four centuries virtually every bottle of wine had a cork in it. But starting in the 1970s, a revolution began to topple the cork monopoly. In recent years, the rebellion has been gathering strength. Belatedly, the cork industry began fighting back, while trying to retain its predominant position. Each year 20 billion closures go onto wine bottles, and, increasingly, they are not corks. The cause of the onslaught against cork is an obscure chemical compound known as TCA. In amounts as low as several parts per trillion, the compound can make a $400 bottle of wine smell like wet newspaper and taste equally bad. Such wine is said to be ""corked."" While cork's enemies urge people to throw off the old and embrace new closures, millions of wine drinkers around the world are still in love with the romance of the cork and the ceremony of opening a bottle. With a thorough command of history, science, winemaking, and marketing, Taber examines all sides of the debate. Along the way, he collects a host of great characters and pivotal moments in the production, storage, and consumption of wine, and paints a truly satisfying portrait of a wholly intriguing controversy. As Australian winemaker Brian Croser describes it: ""It's scary how passionate people can be on this topic. Prejudice and extreme positions have taken over, and science has often gone out the window.""

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Title of ebook: To Cork or Not To Cork: Tradition, Romance, Science, and the Battle for the Wine Bottle
ISBN: 9781416571490
parent-ISBN: 9780743299343
Publisher: Scribner
Internet download file size: 560 kb
Published: 10-2007
Released online for download: 10-09-2007
Author of eBook: Taber, George M.

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To Cork or Not To Cork

Tradition, Romance, Science, and the Battle for the Wine Bottle

PROLOGUE

The David Bruce Winery has long made one of America's most prestigious Chardonnays. Founder David Bruce, a California wine pioneer, was originally trained as a medical doctor with a specialty in dermatology. His real passion, though, was making wine, and for years after starting his own winery in 1961 he practiced medicine by day so that by night and on weekends he could make wine. He only retired from medicine and became a full-time winemaker in 1985. Bruce's vineyards are in the Santa Cruz Mountains south of San Francisco. Early on, he became convinced that his cool, western side of the mountain range facing the Pacific Ocean was ideally suited to making wines in the style of Burgundy -- fruity Chardonnays and elegant Pinot Noirs that reach their peak after five or six years. Paul Masson, one of the first winemakers in the area, called it the Chaîne d'Or because of the similarity he saw to Burgundy's Côte d'Or, where Chardonnays and Pinot Noirs excel. Bruce in the 1980s easily sold out his annual production of ... read full excerpt from To Cork or Not To Cork: Tradition, Romance, Science, and the Battle for the Wine Bottle ebook

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