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!!

[hotwine]

"Interesting" is right! Thanks for the tip.

[winoweenie]

Never heard of such wizardry! Will try this if I ever get a corky thingie. WW

[Thomas]

The plastic wrap thing does "remove" the TCA effect but, as KC alluded to, it also does not give you the exact aroma and taste that the wine starts with before TCA infection.

Some people have said that it does, but none who've said that to me have done what I have done to see for myself: taste the plastic-treated wine against another of the same without TCA infection. They are different.

PS: not just any plastic will do. Use the Saran type.

[winoweenie]

And nachurallie....the Foodster be a major holder of the Saran stock. [img]http://www.wines.com/ubb/wink.gif[/img](hehe) WW

[Thomas]

Hey, I have to get back some of the money I lost in 2008...

[Kcwhippet]

Foodie, How could you have lost money?? You don't own the winery anymore!!

[andrawes76]

news flash, Saran wrap just hit 52 week high. that sounds pretty interesting. i run into this situation every once in a while so I gotta try it...

[Thomas]

KC,

How can I lose money? Let me count the ways... [img]http://www.wines.com/ubb/wink.gif[/img]

I was referring to the 2008 economic meltdown.