Community Tasting Note
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SpenceP wrote: 96 points
September 24, 2020 - Just lovely. The cork, however, was frightening to look at, and it took almost half an hour to remove it safe and intact, using a prong opener (plus patience and experience). Once past the cork, though, the wine was beautiful: flowers, ripe black plums, dried figs, rich milk chocolate, and a moment of orange peel just as it moves into a wonderfully long aftertaste. The cork worries me, but if it can survive the corks, this should continue to be a very special wine for decades.
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RichEB1 commented:
9/26/20, 8:08 PM - Just a great note, thank you very much! Sorry to hear about the cork troubles though! If you drink aged wines often, you should save yourself the aggrevation and snag a Durand. Would have given you 28 minutes of your life back on this bottle alone ;)
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SpenceP commented:
9/26/20, 10:01 PM - Thank you, RichEB1! I just checked out the Durand on the internet and saw the $125 price tag--too expensive for me to casually get one, but I'll give this some thought.
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RichEB1 commented:
9/26/20, 10:12 PM - Yep, I totally get it! The cost kept me from buying one for quite a while. Once I finally pulled the trigger, my only regret was not purchasing one earlier. Seriously a total game changer. I've literally never had an issue removing a cork using it. My suggestion - skip on buying your next bottle of three and use the money on a Durand. Promise you won't regret it! Cheers!
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SpenceP commented:
12/21/20, 9:50 PM - So, I just got a Durand opener as a gift from my brother, and used it for the first time tonight, on a low-value practice bottle--which I think was wise. The problem I had was that I found it difficult to get the screw of the "stabilizer" precisely positioned in the cork--I kept having one prong strike the glass rim of the bottle, and the other trying to dig into the cork instead of sliding between the cork and the inner edge of the bottle. Am I unique in having this problem on first try? If not--is the solution simply to do a lot of practice on low-value bottles until I get the hang of it, or have you developed tricks for dealing with this? Any advice will be gratefully received!
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RichEB1 commented:
12/21/20, 10:20 PM - So I don't know your brother, but I can tell the guy has great taste :)
Nope, I dont think you're alone there - it takes a few tries to get used to how to screw in the worm without it being angled too far against the bottle. Good news is its a short learning curve and I'm sure you'll be a pro in no time. Once you have that part down, its all downhill from there! Let us know what you think after using it a couple more times! Cheers! -
SpenceP commented:
12/22/20, 11:05 AM - Thank you! (Turns out I was making an actual mistake--on my next try I won't make that mistake and it should go much better!)