Gillman Posted October 24, 2004 Share Posted October 24, 2004 Many thanks, and to Randy, for this tech background. I think there are two issues: one is the communication of this particular defect to the alcohol, and the other, is simply communication of the (natural) corky taste. With whiskey, only the former is I think of practical concern, and even then, not very much because the problem seems almost non-existent. The latter simply does not arise because whiskey is rarely kept long enough to worry about it. Gary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tdelling Posted October 25, 2004 Share Posted October 25, 2004 The whole "sommelier" ceremony is silly and pretentious, designed to makeregular people feel uncomfortable and to make unbearable gits feel special.What could you possibly learn from the cork? That it's wet (meaning thatthe bottle was stored on it's side), and that it's not crumbled to bitsdue to age or mishandling.But so what? Does it really matter? They're going to pour you a littlesample to taste anyhow, and that's what you're going to base your keep/refusedecision on! You either like it or you don't. It either tastes corkedor it doesn't. You aren't going to refuse the bottle based only on a sniffof the cork! And even if the bottle is corked, will sniffing the cork reallytell you that? No! You're going to have to taste the wine.At least the "bottled water sommelier" isn't as popular as it once was. Gag.Tim Dellinger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musher Posted August 5, 2005 Share Posted August 5, 2005 We get about 5 calls from consumers each year complaining of corked whiskey in Blanton's. While we use the highest grade cork available, some still goes bad. Send me an e-mail at kweber@buffalotrace.com and I will help you resolve this. If we make a bad bottle of bourbon, we will make it right.Ken I finally ventured into my first bottle of Blanton's (I have, and have had dozens of other BT whiskey products, but never Blanton's), and was surprised at how 'punky' the cork is. So imagine how surprised I was when I see that it was bottled on 5/4/05! Just three months old, and the cork looks worse than the one on my 10 year old bottle of WT 12yo!Thankfully, the whiskey is just fine! I'll just make sure to be careful when removing the cork. I'd hate to have to fish bits of it out of the bottle, or filter the whiskey through a paper towel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kbuzbee Posted August 6, 2005 Share Posted August 6, 2005 So imagine how surprised I was when I see that it was bottled on 5/4/05! Just three months old, and the cork looks worse than the one on my 10 year old bottle of WT 12yo! My very first bottle of Jefferson's Reserve, I twisted the wooden topper to remove the cork and it twisted right off the cork!!! I had to dig out my corkscrew to get the darned thing out. Wound up using the cork from a bottle of Gallo White Merlot (Magnum) to close it back up... (It fit perfectly).Cheers,Ken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrispyCritter Posted August 8, 2005 Share Posted August 8, 2005 It might not be a bad idea to save corks from bottles that you have emptied, just in case.Probably the closest thing I've had to a bad cork was in a Cadenhead's bottling of 1981 Port Ellen that had been sitting on a store shelf for a long time. The cork was just good enough to do its job, though, so I didn't have to worry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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