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Nils Gustaf Lindgren
 
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Default Corks, corks, corks ...

I´m sorry, I tried sending this post to a thread three times until I found
out I´d sent it to Ian Hoare´s private mail box which, as is plainly stated
in the footer of his posts, is always full and never opened. SO here goes.

From: "Ian Hoare" >
Newsgroups: alt.food.wine
Sent: Monday, August 09, 2004 11:06 PM
Subject: Corks, once more ...


> Salut/Hi Nils
>
> le/on Mon, 09 Aug 2004 16:02:19 GMT, tu disais/you said:-
>

....
> Do the calculations. There's about a 1/20 chance of a single bottle being
> tainted. For a second bottle its a 1/20*1/20 or 1/400. For a third 1/8000,
> for a fourth 1 in 160k and so on.
>
> For NONE to be tainted, on the other hand, you might be surprised that

it's
> significantly lower than 50:50 .


This was, in a way, my reason for (once again) starting a thread on this
subject. To wit, that, in my expereince, this winery (F Baur) which is
dependable and a nice place to visit, but not one of the truly great
Alsatian producers (like Zind-Humbrecht etc) has, since 1998, _never_ given
us a corked bottle. Not once. And, as I said, we regularly buy 24+ bottles a
year. Are their cork producer doing something right? Statistical clumping?

Bottom line being, of course, that, if it is due to their cork producer
"doing something right", why can´t _all_ cork producers do it that way?

I think that I´m going to mention the stamp on the cork in my TN´s
henceforth.

Cheers

Nils Gustaf




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