Moldy Cork??

[Kcwhippet]

Hopefully, you saved the bottle and cork. If you take it back where you got it, they will gladly replace any bad bottles or refund your money (this is virtually universal anywhere you purchase wine). Generally, you can expect a small percentage of cork finished bottles to become "corked", which can make the wine taste like wet cardboard or a sweaty horse (or any number of other awful descriptions). The percentage of corked wines varies depending on whom you talk to about the subject. Estimates range from 2% to 10%, but I don't think I've seen more than maybe 20 - 25 bottles in all the thousands I've opened. Unless something disastrous happened at the winery, chances are only your bottle is the bad one. Corks that are moldy on top aren't always an indicator of bad wine inside, however. I've had many bottles over the years with outwardly moldy corks with absolutely splendid wine inside.