Interesting experiment

[Kcwhippet]

Opened up a 2000 Viansa Sonoma Resserve Cab for dinner two evenings ago. Alas, it was corked - not horribly, but enough that I was going to pour it out but didn't. I recorked it and left it on the counter. Last night I was getting ready to dump it when I remembered reading a few times about using plastic wrap to "cure" a wine of corkiness. So, I crumpled up a sizeable piece of Saran Wrap in a pitcher and poured in the wine - first pouring out a glass to test the difference. Used some tongs to swish the wrap around a bit and left it for about five minutes. Poured out a glass and tasted it against the untreated sample. The results were amazing! The untreated wine was still as it was two nights ago - mildew smell, wet cardboard taste. The treated wine didn't smell corked and somehow had regained some of the aromas we had first expected. We tasted and found it had a fuller mouthfeel than before and some of the flavors we would have expected in an aged Cab. Admittedly it wasn't what it should have been, but it was perfectly drinkable - so we did.

Oh, to replace the corked wine two nights ago, we opened a 2002 Altamura Cab to go with the grilled rib eyes. Wonderful!!