Corked or Cooked or Just Plain Bad?

[Stealthman]

Well I have some kind of bad luck I guess. On Wednesday, I grabbed a bottle of '97 BV Latour and a bottle of '97 Insignia at Bev&More for a little Thanksgiving horizontal fun. In the crush to get out of there I failed to notice the dried wine on the foil of the Insignia...fast forward to Turkey Day...pull foil on Phelpps, notice dried wine on foil and cork, think maybe it leaked from another bottle, pull cork, pour, you guessed it, oxidized wine. Well I don't need to tell you Georges won this taste test. Bev&More was cooperative in exchanging so I guess we'll do the Phelpps tonight by its little ole lonesome. Anywho, I dug to the deepest depths of my celler today to pulled the other SS, pulled the foil and much to my thankfullness, cork looked poifect! Put her back to rest for a few years.