a small venting of my corked wine annoyance…

Update 10.5.2023(8.5.2023)billn

weekend wines...

Of course, weekend wines – but this selection left me needing to vent:

Yes, it’s only an aligoté but yes, it was horribly corked – you could smell it at a distance as it was being poured down the sink!

But this is also a brilliant cuvée – made by somebody that we have lost – so this is not the way I want to remember him.

And from the 2016 vintage, Gambal sealed their bottles with DIAM. So how corked?

Boisset bought the Gambal operation before the bottling of the 2018s – and for some reason they have never ‘liked’ DIAM. This is the reason that they have failed this particular consumer. The could use Ndtec cork – not perfect but at least 10x better than normal cork – though expensive. Or they could have used one of many, many ‘technical seals’ – it doesn’t have to be DIAM – but in the end, they chose something that meant their product had to be thrown away…

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  1. Markydb19th May 2023 at 12:55 amPermalinkReply

    As much as I can understand the desire to use a “natural” cork, the simple truth is that the world has long made far too much wine to use natural cork as its go-to seal. I’m willing to live with the vagaries of cork on a $5.00 bottle of sandwich wine, but I refuse to buy another $200 bottle with a 10cent piece of tainted crap as a seal.

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