Look, sometimes wine just isn’t tasty. But if the thing that has you wrinkling your nose is an odour like rotten eggs or burnt rubber, there might be a quick, cheap fix. Like, really cheap.

All it takes is a single penny. Or a silver spoon, if you’ve got something to prove.

Dropping a penny into wine that tastes gross sounds like a bad idea. After all, throwing good money after bad is generally a dangerous game. But when the bad money is skunky wine and the good money is a single, well-washed penny, I’m all for it.

Here’s why it works: These sulfur-y smells usually come from a chemical process called reduction. Reduction can produce stinky sulfur molecules called thiols. But luckily, copper reacts with these molecules to create copper sulfide crystals — which are blessedly odourless.