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Wine does not get corked by the addition of little bits of cork on opening. That's simply little bits of cork floating in the wine and the remedy is to strain it through your teeth as you drink and elegantly and discreetly spit out the bits into the bowl of peanuts and nibbles so that someone can find them later and complain that the nibbles are stale ...Wine is described as corked when the wine's flavour is tainted with a mouldy overlay. (I don't know if the cork is actually the guilty party or not, I'm afraid but I'm sure some cellarite does.) The remedy is to send the bottle back/take it back to the shop and ask for a replacement. I remember a colleague doing this in a restaurant in Moscow in the late 1990s and the waitress reacting with a horrified expression which said "Thinks: I'm going to have to pay for that out of my wages". I hope she didn't have to ... but I'm not too sure.
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