I’ve been purchasing wine for home consumption for more than 10 years now, and for the first time the other night – at least as far as I’ve ever been able to detect – one of the bottles I opened was corked. It was a 2008 Ocone Falanghina Taburno that I recently purchased. A corked [...]
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Uncorking contamination
Posted in Bottle closures, Faults, tagged 2, 4, 6-trichloroanisole, Amarone, Dei Feudi di San Gregorio, falanghina, filtration, Ocone Falanghina Taburno, purification, Sauvion Sancerre Les Fondettes, Screw top, synthetic cork, TCA on April 14, 2010 | 4 Comments »
A fault master’s perfection
Posted in Faults, Matassa, Why not try..., tagged brettanomyces, Cellar Selections, Clos Matassa, cork taint, Coteaux du Fenouilledes, Cotes Catalanes, Faults, International Wine Challenge, Italian Wine Merchants, Languedoc-Roussillon, reduction, Sam Harrop MW, Tom Lubbe, volatile phenols on February 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
It often amazes me just how small New York City can be. Despite its roughly eight million inhabitants, I frequently run into people from my past; most recently someone I went to high school with 15 years ago attended an event where I was pouring wine. I’m learning that the wine world itself can be [...]
