Had his influence not been so vast, people might never have known the meaning of cork taint an off taste usually caused by contaminated cork that affects roughly one bottle in every two dozen.

ECONOMIST: Wine

The problem was first detected in the 1996 Burgundy vintage, when collectors, experts and journalists started to notice the prevalence of a number of faulty bottles that weren't just infected with cork taint.

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