![]() Happily, one bottle that did show rather well was this 2001 Sauternes from Château Sigalas-Rabaud. ![]() Having relaxed somewhat about cork taint, and packing in something of a hurry last Friday, it never crossed my mind to take one or two back-up bottles. I guess it’s a lesson learned once I would have always had a back-up. ![]() It was more the fact that, as I spent the weekend away with my family, and we were staying in self-catering accommodation, the loss of the bottle in question meant no wine to drink on my final evening. The pain was not so much the individual bottle it wasn’t a fifty-year old bottle of first growth Bordeaux of anything so exalted. I don’t keep a record of such bottles any more, but I feel that if I did the percentage loss would be much lower than the 3% that I measured when I did keep an accurate log, over a 24 month period, perhaps six or seven years ago. In the past few years losing wines to fungal contamination of the cork has become a less frequent occurrence for me. The weekend just past was one during which I was reminded of the pain of cork taint.
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