Corked Wines.

[wdonovan]

We get corked bottles so rarely that I (almost) thought it was a myth. Then last week, 2 within 48 hours. Luckily neither one valuable although one was a last bottle to which we had been looking forward to saying our goodbyes. Don't know why we're behind the claimed average (3% to as much as 10%) but i'm glad we are.

Do know what you mean about sending bad bottles back. If the wait staff is less than knowledgable (quite often), they're not going to identify a somewhat corked bottle.

My biggest gripe is that, in some of the BYOB restaurants we frequent, they'll refuse to take back a bottle that is absolutely rotten. <LOL>