Rhone Ranger from Rhone

[hotwine]

I agree with Innkeeper: by all means, try another bottle. You might wish to purchase the next one from a different retailer, in the event that vendor had a storage problem, and allowed his wines to cook. (For that matter, it could be the distributor who had the temperature problem, in which case multiple retailers could have received cooked wine.) I've not had that problem with La Vielle Ferme; and decanting hasn't been necessary. I've been enjoying it for four years, and the corks have consisently been clean and tight - just pull, pour and enjoy. If you bought the bad one from a supermarket, use a wine shop for the next one; rare is the supermarket stock clerk who bothers to provide cool storage for wines.