"That's what the smelling the cork is for, too. If the cork smells like wet dog, wet basement, or swamp, you don't even go on to tasting the wine."
I don't care if its table wine or fine wine, the step is indispensible; learned that the hard way
A few years ago, Baron Herzog was distributing a lovely Bordeaux. Got a bottle, and enjoyed it muchly. Got another bottle. Cork smelled off. The wine was bad and went back to the store. Concluded from the cork's characteristics that the wine had been stored upright.
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Date: 2008-03-16 05:49 am (UTC)I don't care if its table wine or fine wine, the step is indispensible; learned that the hard way
A few years ago, Baron Herzog was distributing a lovely Bordeaux. Got a bottle, and enjoyed it muchly. Got another bottle. Cork smelled off. The wine was bad and went back to the store. Concluded from the cork's characteristics that the wine had been stored upright.