Corks for Wine
Paul Kreider
That little piece of bark (yes, cork is bark harvested from a kind of oak tree) is the focus of much controversy among today's winemakers. Here at Ross Valley Winery, we think there is something more to the discussion than the substitution of cork by alternative closures as a quality issue.
Proponents of alternative closures beat the drum of TCA, triclorolaminisol, the chemical produced by certain molds that give "corked" wine its wet cardboard smell. Some say as much as 8% of all wine is infested with this disgusting smell, but I personally think that figure is grossly overstated and being used as a "fact" to drive wineries toward other closures. I have been making wine commercially at the Ross Valley Winery since 1987, have pulled...
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