Will drinking corked wine make me ill?

[LaundryQueenHatesBunfights]

I'm by no means an expert, but I think that's what's happened.

The cork was all dry and crumbled when I opened it.

It tastes ok but I'm probably used to much worse wine!

It's the only bottle in the house and it's Friday night damn it!

You have wine with cork in, that's fine. Corked wine is essentially gone off and unprintable. It is completely different.

As mermaid said, corked wine is not a the same as wine-with-bits-of-cork.

The former will smell vinegar-y and smell rank. The latter's just a bit gritty and fine for an emergency Friday drink!

You won't be able to drink corked wine. I will be horrid and you'll want to throw up after a mouthful anyway.

Wine with cork in is probably so old it's genius.

The third or fourth bottle might make you sick

If it tasted fine, it's not corked!

Music to my ears, thanks everyone! It was on sale so was a bit dubious anyway.

Apologies for starting two threads, it said the first one didn't post so I thought the wine topic might not exist any more!

I thought I had drunk corked wine loads of times- Until I drank corked wine. I'm common as muck and didn't think I knew the difference, being used to wine in a box and what not. Corked wine is like drinking red wine vinegar mixed with sewage. Really bad. REALLY bad.

Corked wine (or wine suffering from cork taint) is caused by the biproduct (namely trichloroanisole or TCA) of a fungus often found in natural cork coming into contact with chlorides used during the cork sterilisation process. It isn't the disintegration of cork - neither of which are harmful.

Drink. Enjoy. Stick to yellow tails scree top in future. Sorted.