After a long day of yard work, and a soccer game, I sat down to a bottle of 2000 Bordeaux. I figured it would be my latest postand give me some much needed relaxation. However, I found a surprise when I cut the foil off the top. The top part of the cork had mold on it. Not “Oh my God” full on green so you can’t see the cork, but noticable green splotches.
What to do? Should I return it to the store? Is it probably fine, so go ahead and drink it? What say you? Anyone had green corks before?
Matt, aka CardCat, focuses his efforts on reviewing wines that are under $10. His 10 Dollar Wine blog chronicles his attempts at finding those hidden value wines. View Matt's Wine Log.
April 23rd, 2007 |
Subscribe by RSS
Subscribe by Email
Categories
- Announcement (48)
- Books (3)
- Bug Fix (2)
- Features (44)
- Food (21)
- Foreign Wines (12)
- Free Stuff (2)
- Fun (20)
- Gadgets (1)
- General Overview (15)
- Giveaway (2)
- Holidays (12)
- Introspection (9)
- Mobile (4)
- Movies (3)
- News and Interest (58)
- Poll (1)
- Press Release (2)
- Recipes (1)
- Red Table Wine (15)
- Restaurants (19)
- Sparkling Wine (10)
- Special Offers (30)
- Storage (4)
- Technical Issues (13)
- Television (3)
- Travel (33)
- Uncategorized (8)
- User Experience (60)
- Users (5)
- Web (28)
- Wine (112)
- Wine at Home (17)
- Wine Blogs (30)
- Wine Events (38)
- Wine Investing (3)
- Wine Marketing (11)
- Wine Merchandise (10)
- Wine Pairing (12)
- Wine Products (12)
- Wine Question (3)
- Wine Regions (37)
- Wine Review (56)
- WineLog (86)
- Wineries (39)
- Wines Under $10 (7)
Archives
- January 2009
- December 2008
- November 2008
- October 2008
- September 2008
- August 2008
- July 2008
- June 2008
- May 2008
- April 2008
- March 2008
- February 2008
- January 2008
- December 2007
- November 2007
- October 2007
- September 2007
- August 2007
- July 2007
- June 2007
- May 2007
- April 2007
- March 2007
- February 2007
- January 2007
- December 2006
- November 2006
- October 2006
- September 2006
- August 2006
- July 2006
- June 2006
- May 2006
- March 2006
- February 2006
- January 2006
2 Responses to “Cork Issue”
Here is the response I got from customer care at Total Wine:
Dear Matt,
Thank you for your email. Most of the time if mold is only on the outside of the cork, the wine inside the bottle will be fine. We open quite a lot of bottles with some degree of “mold” on the cork and in most cases the wine is fine. The best way to determine if the wine is still good is to open the bottle (don’t smell the cork since it will cloud judgment) - pour a little in a glass and proceed to smell the wine. If you do not detect anything “off,” go ahead and try the wine. It will not hurt you. If you like the way it tastes, continue drinking. If it does tastes off, take back to the retailer you purchased the wine at.
[...] value wines. View Matt’s Wine Log. April 27th, 2007 | Matt Add to del.icio.us | Digg this story | Filed under:WineLog [...]