(Food&Wine) - "Their sense of smell is extremely reliable and rarely ever misses," a spokesperson said.

The highly-attuned snouts of trained dogs are already used to sniff out other potential problems like bombs and drugs — so why couldn’t these canines be used to prevent one of the biggest disasters of them all… corked wine?

The Chilean wine barrel maker TN Coopers has reportedly trained a team of dogs to hunt down potentially harmful compounds like trichloroanisole (TCA) and tribromoanisole (TBA) which are responsible for causing cork taint, according to Wine Spectator. Though, as the name implies, this tainting of wine which leads to undesirable aromas and flavors often comes from the cork, these same compounds can also contaminate barrels, infecting the wine at that earlier stage of production. So TN Coopers decided to take on some additional preventive measures — the kind that can be rewarded with doggie treats.