Community Tasting Note

honest bob wrote:

Tuesday, July 31, 2012 - From 75cl, nasty composite-artificial "cork" closure to which I attribute the premature senility of this otherwise well-made wine (bought from an impeccable source, and properly cellared). This may once have been outstanding, now it is just a pleasant, soft, fading PN of the darker-fruit persuasion, with fading acid balance and only residual resonance or persistence. I should have drunk this 2 years ago, or to be more precise: it should have been bottled with a screw cap or at least a good quality proper cork instead of this absurd travesty of a composite "cork"-glue closure. Why did so many top rank wineries fall for this non-innovation of the early 2000s? Perhaps it was aggressive marketing by the likes of Diam and Nomacorc. Having wasted just as much money over the years on premium wine ruined after 5-6 years storage under a variety of artificial "cork" closures as on genuinely "corked" bottles with natural cork closures, I can only hope that the screw-cap Gospel will prevail, and wine-makers who cultivate a reductive style will go back to using real cork, taking the trouble to identify reliable suppliers and monitor their products dilligently. Drink up! 88P, and falling.

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