Tainted Love - The Ultimate Guide to Wine Faults

Wine Blast with Susie and Peter

Ladybug poo. Cheesy feet. Mould. Boiled eggs. Cabbage. Drains. Vomit. Nail varnish remover. Dead mouse...
Yes, you can find all these noxious aromas in a glass of wine. They are very real - and in this episode we put our bodies on the line as we blind taste through all these horrors and more, to answer the big questions and ensure you know your stuff. (Because life is too short for faulty wine.)
So what are the main wine faults? How can you spot them? Is it true some are becoming more common? Why do they happen? What can you do about it? And dead mouse...really??!!
The answers may surprise and shock you. We have Dutch sensory scientist Sietze Wijma in the hot-seat, serving us wines spiked with taints to bring these faults to life. We give our six Top Wine Taint Tips - and explain how to check your wine properly. Which, as we reveal, can actually be a matter of life and death.
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Chapters

1. Tainted Love - The Ultimate Guide to Wine Faults (00:00:00)

2. Hello and welcome (00:00:05)

3. Fun times! (00:00:24)

4. Checking your wine can be a matter of life and death (00:00:38)

5. We're putting our bodies on the line for this episode (00:01:03)

6. You can do this too! (00:01:54)

7. Let's get into a proper wine faults headspace (00:02:16)

8. Etiquette expert William Hanson on checking for faults (00:02:42)

9. ...But he's not right (00:03:30)

10. Perception is individual - context is important (00:04:41)

11. Introducing sensory scientist Sietze Wijma (00:05:47)

12. Cork taint / TCA (00:07:47)

13. Is 'low-level' cork taint actually a myth?! (00:11:21)

14. Acetaldehyde (00:11:53)

15. MID-EPISODE RECAP (00:17:23)

16. Methyl mercaptan / reduction / light strike (00:17:45)

17. A fault you can do something about! (00:23:27)

18. The copper coin trick (00:25:09)

19. Smoke taint (00:26:28)

20. Brettanomyces - 4-EP and isovaleric acid (00:33:27)

21. Ladybird taint (00:42:45)

22. Volatile acidity (acetic acid and ethyl acetate) (00:48:31)

23. Mouse taint (00:50:02)

24. Why William Hanson is (sadly) wrong (00:54:27)

25. Our TOP WINE TAINT TIPS (00:54:51)

26. CLOSING SUMMARY (00:58:24)

27. Outro (00:58:55)