Community Tasting Note

• Shiaxonna wrote: flawed

  March 16, 2014 - Clear red colour with slight bricking in the edges. Young colour for being this old. Smells like burnt rubber, plastic with a weak hint of dried berries and fruits under all the plastic somewhere. Time in the glass doesn't change the negative initial impression, and I really don't want to taste this wine. On the palate it's not too bad at first, but a lightweight watery taste soon gets overpowered by a sharpened and unbalanced sting of vinegar and long forgotten wet sock.
  
  Had two bottles of this one, and the first one was splendid 18 months ago. Shame, but old bottles are always a gamble.

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4 Comments

• Tig78 commented:

  9/18/15, 11:44 PM - Sounds like your '78 was reductive - did you try the penny/copper trick?

• Shiaxonna commented:

  9/20/15, 8:35 AM - What trick are you thinking about? I do not think I have heard of it. If there is a way to fix reductive wines I would really like to know :-)

• Tig78 commented:

  9/25/15, 5:50 AM - Adding a penny to a reductive wine usually oxidizes the wine and can recover an out of balance wine. It is one of the few tricks that can actually save a bottle of wine from a significant flaw.

• Shiaxonna commented:

  9/25/15, 9:11 AM - That's cool. I have to try it sometime. How long do you keep the coin in before you try the wine again?

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