On 10 Aug 2004 15:33:52 GMT, Michael Pronay > wrote:

>Steve Slatcher > wrote:
>
>> Cannot also barrels, or staves in barrels, be contaminated?
>
>TCA spreads quite freely, so if staves are contaminated, the cask
>will be immediately. Wood preservatives containing chlorine used
>on the roof construction have been found guilty in contaminating a
>whole winery. Another case here in Austria: contaminated wooden
>palletes have contaminated (although only slightly) not only ony
>vintage of a given winery, but also other batches of wines since
>this winery operated bottlings for others.
>
>I once even had deep-fried lamb chops that were completey corked.
>The guilty was found rapidly: The slice of lemon (commonly served
>with anything deepfried, from Wiener Schnitzel up and down, here
>in Austria) had an extremely intense TCA smell. Quite probably it
>was contaminated in its wooden delivery case which was
>contaminated.

I too, on 2 separate occasions, have experienced food that tasted
"corked".

Mike

Mike Tommasi, Six Fours, France
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