Doug Bashford wrote:
On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, pp said about:
Aging Corks Fail ??


On Nov 13, 2:19 pm, (Doug Bashford) wrote:

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Is this a common bug? How to prevent?

Thanks!
--Doug
Corks deteriorate over time, so what you see if pretty natural,
especially if you used regular quality corks. All red wines will turn
garent at some point if allowed to age that long and tannins will
mellow - again, that's just a natural progression. If the wine in the
bottles with corks that look ok tastes significantly better, you might
want to consider recorking those bottles - assuming all the corks came
from the same batchm the "good ones" won't probably last much longer.

Pp

Thanks!

I wonder if in the future I waxed the corks or
went to synthetic, or...?

Sometimes I hear of 100+ year-old fine wines.
What's up with that? I thought that was typical?

--Doug



100 year old wine will taste kinda flat, too. Just not 'spoiled'.

The quality of cork we get nowadays is inferior to that of just 25 years
ago. We used up much of the good stuff, and they try to grow the bark
too fast these days by using lotsa water and nutrients. The cork grown
this way isn't as dense as naturally grown cork.

Gene