Rotten: adj. The smell or taste of rotten (See also Mold) is a serious defect that can come from a wine stored in a poorly maintained barrel leading to the development of mold; from a contaminated harvest or more simply from the atmosphere of a cellar polluted by chloroanisols *.
This rotten taste is also found in wines made from grapes affected by gray rot or from a wine that has been kept too long on lees leading to reductive phenomena ...
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