Corkiness

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The quality of being corky. uncountable

    "Once you know how, spotting corked wine is easy – but the fact is that you shouldn't have to. It takes time to learn to distinguish different characters in a wine – and corkiness is one of them"

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droughtthirst

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"Once you know how, spotting corked wine is easy – but the fact is that you shouldn't have to. It takes time to learn to distinguish different characters in a wine – and corkiness is one of them"

Etymology

From corky + -ness.

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