Netscape Community Poll: How common is "corked" wine?

[Robin Garr]

It's time for another of our periodic "snapshot" polls in which we look for a current reading on wine lovers' perceptions of the incidence of cork-tainted wine. The field seems to be changing fast, as screw caps and synthetic closures gain market share, while the cork industry fights back by pushing quality control, at least at the premium level. We're hoping for a large number of votes and comments this week, as our Netscape/CompuServe Community poll invites you to tell us your cork-taint experiences.

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I'm right around the industry average and am just over 5% or so, 4 out of about 70 bottles over the last 5 months.

I guess I must be a rather stuffy personality: I've been keeping a list of all corked bottles and count percentages corked (out of cork stopped bottles only, I don't count screwed or plastic corks of course). Admitting that I am not sensitive to cork, I am still surprised at how few I've had. Since I started keeping count, 11 out of 251 bottles have been corked, i.e. 4,4%.

-Otto-(must get a life...)

Otto.... you have a life, and youve just given me a great idea. I will start keeping track...

[James Roscoe]

Count me in the four to seven percent range. I feel sorry for the person who posted above ten percent.