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weeper

Term describing a bottle of wine that is leaking slightly (weeping) around the cork. This can be caused by a faulty cork or by poor storage where a cork that wasn’t kept moist shrank. Weepers aren’t necessarily bad bottles of wine, although it’s possible that spoilage could have occurred.
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