Corked Wine Question

[Bucko]

No experience with the wine, but with multiple exact wines being corked. I purchased a case of Brand X (no need to trash the winery). ALL of the bottles were corked and they gave me back my money. It turns out that they had a bad batch of corks and several hundred bottles got tainted although not nearly that many got returned. I guess many people were like your in-laws.

Threshold levels for appreciating a corked wine can vary as much as 1000-fold. I am not as sensitive as my wife, so when a wine tastes fruitless, but yet I detect no corkiness, I ask her to take a whiff. More often than not she will curl up her nose and say that it is corked.

I would call Freemark Abbey and ask them if they are having a cork problem. Most wineries are very quick to rectify the situation.

FWIW, not all mustiness is a cork problem. You can also have barrel taint that will give a musty, mousey odor.

Bucko