No restaurateur would refuse to replace a corked bottle or would make a mistake about the condition.
Grunge storage cupboard in hut with corked ink vial, poison phial, dry herb bunch, oil, scattered flour, jam and liqueur in jug with label for title.
This wine is faulty, I think it's corked.
Romeo was a stout elderly gentleman, with corked eyebrows, a husky tragedy voice, and a figure like a beer-barrel.
Corked - Wine that is corked tastes mouldy; it also smells bad.
Whenever her mouth was not corked with clothes pegs she was singing in a powerful contralto:
The last bottle was corked, but this one was beautiful.
"bottle:a receptacle having a narrow neck, usually no handles, and a mouth that can be plugged, corked, or capped."
He corked the bottle with a trembling hand and then passed it across the table to Harry.
It seemed to him as though to-day, for the first time, he had, thanks to that corked moustache, seen her fully as she was.
If they get worse after decanting the wine is probably corked.
He kept his emotions corked up inside him
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