wine cork condition

[scottsins]

so i jsut splurged on a 1.5 litre of trilogy, from 1998 i think.

the cork broke. then, when i removed the rest of it, it was soaking wt a little over 1/2 inch up the bottom. really wet. never felt a cork this soaked before.

the wine does not taste great at this point. never had it before, so maybe it just doesn't suit me.

anyway, do i have a bad bottle.

 

[Agent007]

Methinks you do sir.

 

[Sangre Naranjada]

Bad corks let more oxygen pass. This will age and spoil the wine before its time. Of course the bottle may have been in poor storage conditions during part of its lifetime too. Sounds like you might have picked up a bad bottle.

One of these days the traditional wine world will overcome their aversion to screw caps.

 

[Summerof79]

Screw tops much more common along with synthetic corks. It sounds like you have have gotten a cork that wasn't the best, but having a 10 year old bottle bleed wine up the cork a good way is not unusual. However I HATE a frigging soft cork like the one you are describing is a pain in the *** as it nearly always breaks apart.

Might have not been sotred properly, but I will also say that oftentimes the finer wines don't taste that great on the first pour until they get a little oxygen into them. Let us know what the deal was with the bottle?

 

[Mr.Wizard]

does it smell of band-aids?