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To help you decide whether to sip or send it back, we asked sommelier Michael Madrigale to walk us through how he determines if a wine isn’t up to snuff. The good news: Bad bottles are rare. Of the roughly 150 wines Madrigale opens each night, usually only one is destined for the drain. Here’s how to tell if yours is, too.
1Corked
2Too Tight
3Too Old
4Oxidized
5Reduced
6Sulfur Spoil
7Brett