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Welcome.
“Welcome to the best five minute wine podcast”
with Forrest Kelly.
From time to time, we get questions from you.
Let's go ahead and bring sour grapes in and answer one of your questions. All right, Uncle Leo, cue that listener voicemail. Well, somebody answered that phone. Hey, listen, this is Mark, she gave.
I'm calling out to Jersey. I don't know how this works, but she didn't even know about who it's your cut guest for a little bit. You think maybe you guys might know the answer to this question, because me and my lady, if we get into wine a little bit
recently, and I have read something that, quote, she just has good as caps or vice versa. But every time I bring home cap wine, she's like, I'm being cheap. So I guess my question, just be, it's called to wine better than caps. Anyway, to the cheap drunkard Jersey, we'll
be called to your answer. Sheep drunk out of Jersey. I love this guy already.
Mark, first of all, welcome to the wine world, man.
You and your lady are just getting into it. That is fantastic.
“And second of all, she is giving you a hard time, but honestly,”
she's not entirely wrong to have the instinct. Even if the instinct is based on a myth, the short answer mark is no, not inherently. A screw cap does not mean the wine is cheap. It means the winery made a different choice
about how to seal the bottle. The reason Cork became the tradition is history, not science. Cork was what was available.
It works great, but it comes with a risk.
You ever open a bottle and it smells like wet cardboard, like a musty basement, Cork taint is the reason. It's caused by a compound called TCA. Try chloroanosol. And it comes from a contaminated core.
It can ruin an entire bottle of wine.
“And that happens to somewhere between one and three percent”
of all Cork seal bottles. That's not nothing. So in some ways, Mark, you bring in home screw caps is actually the more sophisticated move. Yes, Mark needs ammunition here, but Mark, you said,
you and your lady are getting into wine. Are you buying bottles to age for 20 years? Probably not. You're buying bottles to drink on a Tuesday night in Jersey. And for that, screw cap is totally fine.
Maybe even better. No risk of Cork taint opens easy. Receals perfectly. I brought home the future. Mark, write that down.
You're not cheap. You're informed, big difference. Cheers. Cheap drunken Jersey better known as Mark. Cheers to you and your lady.
Until next time, drink what you love. Don't let anyone make you feel bad about it and we'll see you in the glass. Before you go, Mark, how about a new Jersey joke? How do you know someone's from Jersey?
Don't worry, they'll tell you. And then they'll argue with you about it. [SCREAMING] Thank you for listening. Tell your friends and pets.
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