1.   A corked bottle at home is more of a problem.

2.   A friend of mine learned to recognize it by asking waiters to let him smell any corked bottles they may have retrieved that day.

3.   Corked bottles were a problem five years ago but much less so now.

4.   Knowledgeable restaurateurs will replace a corked bottle of wine and charge the replacement to the wholesaler.

5.   Prior to his tin-coated steel can, foods were packed in corked bottles.

6.   Yet they are French, and many are served in corked champagne bottles, meant to be cellared for a year or more before being drunk.