🍾 Sealed with cork 😖 Tastes spoiled

corked

1 7.7

Wine that tastes wrong because the cork has gone bad

adjective
/kɔrkt/

Specialized

: afectado por el corcho

The sommelier warned us that the wine might taste sour because it was corked.

Examples

We had to return the bottle because the wine was clearly corked, ruining the dinner party.
After tasting the first sip, I knew the wine was corked and not worth finishing.
And that's why my best friend is no longer allowed to open corked bottles.

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Synonyms

corky

vscorked

Specialized

1 8.7

An unpleasant moldy taste in wine caused by a faulty cork

includes other stopper faults such as excess tannin not only musty taste

Antonyms

fresh

557 1.0

Recently made or gathered food that is not spoiled

uncontaminated

4 5.2

Free from harmful or unwanted things

How Faulty

undrinkable

2 3.4

corked

Specialized

1 7.7

off

11 2.7

clean

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

corked positive

Morphology

corked = cork (semi-transparent) = cork + ed

Formed as the past participle of the verb 'cork' plus '-ed', but the sense 'tainted by a bad cork' is a specialized wine-fault meaning not obviously predictable to learners who only know 'cork' as a stopper.

Etymology

Corked comes from cork, the bark used to stop bottles, which comes from the old Latin word cortex meaning 'bark'. A helpful way to remember the tasting meaning is that a bad cork can spoil a wine's smell and taste, so a wine that tastes wrong is called 'corked'.